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Cribl Search Failing With: Mismatched Input '/' Error When Filtering Visualization Results

  • April 21, 2026
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Hello Team, have a weird issue with a token in a dashboard in Cribl Search. I have a dropdown input that is populated by a search, which is working fine, however it has a value being returned that is Software/Technology I am trying to use the value to filter results in a table in one of the visualizations however I am getting an error because of the / character in the value. The error is 
Search failed: mismatched input '/' expecting {<EOF>, ';'}; token: /; line: 1 column: 119
is there any way to sanitize the token so that it can just search on the text?

Best answer by David Cavuto

Hi @user! I would suggest perhaps doing a dynamic replacement of the "/" character with something else, perhaps an underscore. There are a few ways to accomplish this, so i would try the translate function first (since it's likely the easiest). Something like ... | extend theField=translate("/", "_",theField) | ...

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  • David Cavuto
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  • April 21, 2026
Hi @user! I would suggest perhaps doing a dynamic replacement of the "/" character with something else, perhaps an underscore. There are a few ways to accomplish this, so i would try the translate function first (since it's likely the easiest). Something like ... | extend theField=translate("/", "_",theField) | ...
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Thanks @user i will give that a try.
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