To MAC address (mac)

Description

Converts a valid string or integer into a MAC address (data tytpe mac).

How does it work in the search window?

Select Create column in the search window toolbar, then select the To MAC address operation. You need to specify one argument:

The data type of the values in the new column is mac.

Example

The examples in this article use values in a data table generated from the following CSV file.

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If you want to try the example for yourself, download the file and upload it to your domain clicking Data upload in the navigation pane. Name the new table my.upload.sample.data and select Current date as Date parsing type. Learn more about uploading data in Uploading log files.

After receiving the confirmation message, you can access the table from the Finder, selecting my → upload → sample → data. When you upload data from a file, all the information is included in a single column called message. To split the values into different columns, you can use the Split operation. Click Toggle Query Editor in the search window toolbar and paste the following LINQ query to save time:

from my.upload.sample.data
select split(message, ";", 12) as MACstring

We want to transform the strings in our MACstring column into mac format. To do it, click Create column and select the To MAC address operation. The arguments needed are:

• String to convert - MACstring column

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Click Create column and you will see the following result:

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How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as...  and add the operation syntax to create the new column. These are the valid formats of the To MAC address operation:

• mac(string)

• mac(integer)

Example

You can copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the my.lookuplist.conversion table.