Dashboards & Visualizations

How to use the replace command to modify a regex token on my dashboard?

TiagoTLD1
Communicator

Hello,

I have a chart where I want to use the drilldown in a table below, where I will want to search for that selected field in the chart.

The problem is the field has " in it, so I can't use a WHERE clause because it can't have more than two ".

So I figured I can use eval functions in this way (it is documented), and the replace function allows me to replace the " by \" so it can be used in a WHERE clause. I tested it outside the dashboard, with success.

**<eval token="drillregex">replace($click.name2$,"\"","")</eval>**

The issue is that this is only replacing the FIRST occurrence of ", so I still have other " in the data.

It is strange because replace function is supposed to replace every occurrence of it...

Any clues ?

Thanks in advance

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sundareshr
Legend

You should be able to escape the quotes in the query like this "$tokName|s$. Now this may work in the drilldown section as well, I haven't tried. Worth a try though.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Viz/tokens#Token_filters

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sundareshr
Legend

You should be able to escape the quotes in the query like this "$tokName|s$. Now this may work in the drilldown section as well, I haven't tried. Worth a try though.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Viz/tokens#Token_filters

TiagoTLD1
Communicator

Thank you!

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TiagoTLD1
Communicator

Hi

Unfortunately that would only solve the issue for data with two ".

Data with more " would require more of that code and that would not be a good pratice.

Exemple: User with login "xxx" and id "zzzz" connected to server "yyy"

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sundareshr
Legend

Why not do the replace in your query, before the where clause?

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TiagoTLD1
Communicator

Sure, i already do that replace in order to compare data values without " against the token values. But the token mustn't have the " too. So I still need that token to not have ". The behaviour of replace function in the eval is apparently different inside the Dashboard and in a simple search.

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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Run the replace twice

<eval token="drillregex">replace(replace($click.name2$,"\"",""),"\"","")</eval>

Also, can you post some sample values that you receive in the chart?

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