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Log file monitoring search string

Is it possible to use special characters in a search string when using log parser? I'm trying to search in a log file for a string that matches severity="1" but it returns all lines that matches severity. It doesn't look like the log parser template takes the whole string with it in the script.

Has somebody experienced the same problem? Have you been able to resolve it?

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thulsey

Sorry to bring up such an old question, but I have the answer for anyone who is desperately searching for it.

You'll have to use an escape character before the special character. In Perl it is backslash \ and in Powershell it is the accent ` (same key as ~ NOT an apostrophe)

jdbvalley

Thank you I appreciate your response!!