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how do i search for the ? character?

piebob
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

"?" and escape permutations don't seem to work.

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Ayn
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"?" seems to work just fine for me. Do you have an example of a search + log events that should match but don't?

You can also use regex and escape the question mark:

* | regex _raw="\?"

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Ayn
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"?" seems to work just fine for me. Do you have an example of a search + log events that should match but don't?

You can also use regex and escape the question mark:

* | regex _raw="\?"
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