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what is the signifincance of $ symbol in splunk ??

rakesh_498115
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Hi..

I know that the dolloar $ is used for variables . like $a or $b something like this.In splunk i have seen in few posts like $results[0].Field$ which is giving the 0th value of Field , if that is the case , a search result generally returns one or more rows ryt ?? can i print all the search results using $results[0...].Field$ variable ?? Is there is a way in splunk to do it ??

can you please me .and justify the usage of two "$" symbols in splunk..

thnx in advance.

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sideview
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It's a convention started by Splunk, and in core Splunk it's used in several notable places

-- to show where selected values should be slotted into searches via the "stringreplace" intention, and stringreplace intentions can be generated by Splunk UI modules.
-- to print dynamic values in the SimpleResultsHeader module.
-- to show where arguments should be slotted into macros that take arguments. (not all macros take arguments so you might never have seen this).

Sideview Utils then takes this convention much further.

-- Almost every sideview module param accepts $foo$ tokens. And you don't need to convert anything to an intention first, or use intentions at all. the raw tokens are simply plugged into the corresponding $foo$ slot in the value.
-- There's actually a page in Sideview Utils that attempts to broadly summarize and classify all of the different $foo$ tokens that are available, what modules create them and why.

(in the Sideview Utils app, go to "Key Techniques > Other > overview of all the new $foo$ keys"

You can download the latest Sideview Utils from here (2.2.2) -
http://sideviewapps.com/apps/sideview-utils/

Note that the version on Splunkbase is quote old (1.3.6)

Also, Note that the $results[0].fieldName$ convention is only a convention inside the HTML module. It's described a fair bit in the docs around the HTML module in Sideview Utils, and I think also on the general $foo$ token page described above.

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sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It's a convention started by Splunk, and in core Splunk it's used in several notable places

-- to show where selected values should be slotted into searches via the "stringreplace" intention, and stringreplace intentions can be generated by Splunk UI modules.
-- to print dynamic values in the SimpleResultsHeader module.
-- to show where arguments should be slotted into macros that take arguments. (not all macros take arguments so you might never have seen this).

Sideview Utils then takes this convention much further.

-- Almost every sideview module param accepts $foo$ tokens. And you don't need to convert anything to an intention first, or use intentions at all. the raw tokens are simply plugged into the corresponding $foo$ slot in the value.
-- There's actually a page in Sideview Utils that attempts to broadly summarize and classify all of the different $foo$ tokens that are available, what modules create them and why.

(in the Sideview Utils app, go to "Key Techniques > Other > overview of all the new $foo$ keys"

You can download the latest Sideview Utils from here (2.2.2) -
http://sideviewapps.com/apps/sideview-utils/

Note that the version on Splunkbase is quote old (1.3.6)

Also, Note that the $results[0].fieldName$ convention is only a convention inside the HTML module. It's described a fair bit in the docs around the HTML module in Sideview Utils, and I think also on the general $foo$ token page described above.

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