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field values with "invisible" characters?

gliptak
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I have a number of events searchable by:

index=main sourcetype="myevents"

All of them show foo field with value bar

When adding that as a filter to my query:

index=main sourcetype="myevents" foo=bar

no results are returned.

If I update above to

index=main sourcetype="myevents" foo="bar*"

I do get results.

Any pointers on how to see the real value of foo?

PS I couldn't print foo as list of characters. The closest I got was

| rex field=foo mode=sed "s/(.)/\1+/g"

which printed

b+a+r+

note the last character seems to 'r'

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