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skip step in foreach

spisiakmi
Contributor

Hi, any help, please?

Here is the code

| makeresults
| eval tmp_1=1
| eval tmp_2=""
| eval tmp_3=3
| eval tmp=""
| foreach tmp_*
[| eval tmp = tmp ."|".if(isnotnull(<<FIELD>>),<<FIELD>>,"")]
| eval tmp=substr(tmp, 2)
| table tmp

Output is: tmp=1||3

I would like to have output tmp="1|3", it means how to skip the step in foreach, if the <<FIELD>> is null?

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @spisiakmi 

I dont think your isnotnull is matchnig as you expect on "", try this:

| makeresults
| eval tmp_1=1
| eval tmp_2=""
| eval tmp_3=3
| eval tmp=""
| foreach tmp_*
[| eval tmp = tmp.if(<<FIELD>>!="",<<FIELD>>."|","")]
| eval tmp=trim(tmp,"|")
| table tmp

 

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @spisiakmi 

I dont think your isnotnull is matchnig as you expect on "", try this:

| makeresults
| eval tmp_1=1
| eval tmp_2=""
| eval tmp_3=3
| eval tmp=""
| foreach tmp_*
[| eval tmp = tmp.if(<<FIELD>>!="",<<FIELD>>."|","")]
| eval tmp=trim(tmp,"|")
| table tmp

 

spisiakmi
Contributor

livehybrid thank you very much, simple, easy, fast. Very good.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @spisiakmi ,

please try this:

| makeresults
| eval tmp_1=1
| eval tmp_2=""
| eval tmp_3=3
| eval tmp=""
| foreach tmp_*
[| eval tmp = tmp ."|".if(isnotnull(<<FIELD>>),<<FIELD>>,"")]
| eval tmp=substr(tmp, 2)
| rex field=tmp mode=sed "s/\|+/|/g"
| table tmp

Ciao.

Giuseppe

 

spisiakmi
Contributor

Hey gcusello, thank you very much.

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