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extract multi valued field

rashid47010
Communicator

HI everyone,

the filed containst two values. one in each line.

fieldname = value1
value2

How can we exlude the results with the fieldname contains value2.

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kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@rashid47010
Can you please try this?

YOUR_SEARCH | where isnull(mvfind(fieldname,"value2"))

My Sample Search:

| makeresults | eval fieldname="value1,value2" | append [| makeresults | eval fieldname="value1,value3"] | eval fieldname = split(fieldname,",") | where isnull(mvfind(fieldname,"value2"))

Thanks

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