Turns out that one of my column names came from a json. Something like this: |spath "object.property"| ....|table "object.property",column2 and oda's solution was not working at first until I did |spath "object.property" output column1 | table column1,column2 My bad for not providing more info. Looks like to compare both things have to be strings and for some reason you cannot just use the path in the json ... View more