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if-else condition

abhayneilam
Contributor

Can I use like this :

| eval a=if(Location!=" ",stat count by Location)

but I am getting error..

actually I want to find..I want to get the count for those records which are non-blank

Please help

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I am not sure that you can use conditional searches, just conditional field calculation using eval.

another way is to make sure that the field location exits, then count
| WHERE NOT ( Location=" " OR isnull(Location) ) | stat count by Location

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Ayn
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You could also include it in the stats command directly:

stats count(eval(Location==" " OR isnull(Location))
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