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What Fabien suggested just rang a bell for me, but wouldn't "context-values" or "context-lookup" template functions  suit your need?</div>
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I have copied the admin guide's referring part:</div>
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<span>context-values<br>
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<div>$(context-values $name-value1 $name-value2 ...)<br>
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<div>Description: The context-values template function returns a list of every occurrence of the
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<div>specified name-value pairs from the entire context. For example, if the context contains
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<div>multiple messages, the $(context-values ${HOST}) template function will return a comma-<br>
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<span>separated list of the ${HOST} values that appear in the context.</span><br>
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<span>Sorry if I'm wrong, these are just my 2 cents.</span></div>
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<span>Regards,</span></div>
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<span>Gabor</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 2, 2019 14:49<br>
<b>To:</b> Fabien Wernli <wernli@in2p3.fr><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu><br>
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Hi again,<br>
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 09:40:21AM +0200, Fabien Wernli wrote:<br>
> message, but that won't help you as you can't (AFAIK) loop through the<br>
> backref index. What you might be able to do is use the `$(grep)` function<br>
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Actually, you cannot yet, but might be able to soon(ish):<br>
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