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I apolagize for the simplicity of this question. I have scowered all over splunk answers and could find or make sense of a solutions from what I have found.
I need to remove %20 from my search and replace with a space. I have tried:
rex mode=sed "s/%20/ /"
rex mode=sed "s/%20/ /g"
rex mode=sed field=fieldname "s/%20/ /g"
I am sure it is not registering with me whith the slashes what is needed in the sed sytax.
Thank you for any assistance.
Cory
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That's really how you would do it with rex mode=sed so I really don't know why it's not working for you. However I suggest an alternate solution that seems more appropriate in your scenario anyway: use eval's urldecode function instead. It will read a string, decode all URL encoded entities and return the decoded string.
... | eval yourfield=urldecode(yourfield)
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That's really how you would do it with rex mode=sed so I really don't know why it's not working for you. However I suggest an alternate solution that seems more appropriate in your scenario anyway: use eval's urldecode function instead. It will read a string, decode all URL encoded entities and return the decoded string.
... | eval yourfield=urldecode(yourfield)
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Awesome. Could you please mark my answer as accepted (click the tick mark on the left)? Thanks!
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That worked... Thank you very much.
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