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sc0tt
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I'm using a sed script to clean up some events before they are indexed by Splunk in order to reduce the license usage. My raw data has some XML tags. Prior to indexing, I reformat these tags as key=value pairs. The below sed script was working correctly. However, there has been a change to the log that introduces an angle bracket character (<) which is causing the data to not be indexed as desired.

Sed script in props.conf

s/<([^\s\>]*)[^\>]*\>([^<].*?)\<\/\1\>/ \1="\2"/g

Sample data

2014-03-20 09:35:46,193 Outgoing UserSessionLog <UserId>55555555555</UserId><MsgType>Menu</MsgType><Title>My Title</Title><MenuId>1</MenuId><Text>This is some text</Text><MenuId>2</MenuId><Text><This is text with an angle bracket</Text><Internal>User Menu</Internal><IsActive>true</IsActive><SessionID>1000</SessionID>

The above sample data is indexed as:

2014-03-20 09:35:46,193 Outgoing UserSessionLog UserId="55555555555" MsgType="Menu" Title="My Title" MenuId="1" Text="This is some text" MenuId="2"<Text><This is text with an angle bracket</Text> Internal="System Menu" IsActive="true" SessionID="1000"

As you can see, the regular expression is not matching the second Text key because of the angle bracket (<) so the value is not getting assigned properly. It should be Text="<This is text with an angle bracket". I have been unable to modify the regular expression to handle this scenario.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this SED

To remove "<" from value of Text:-

s/<([^\s\>]*)[^\>]*\>[<]*([^<].*?)\<\/\1\>/ \1=\"\2\"/g

To keep the "<" with value of Text:-

s/<([^\s\>]*)[^\>]*\>(.*?)\<\/\1\>/ \1=\"\2\"/g

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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this SED

To remove "<" from value of Text:-

s/<([^\s\>]*)[^\>]*\>[<]*([^<].*?)\<\/\1\>/ \1=\"\2\"/g

To keep the "<" with value of Text:-

s/<([^\s\>]*)[^\>]*\>(.*?)\<\/\1\>/ \1=\"\2\"/g

somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try second option.

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sc0tt
Builder

Thanks! Is there a way to keep the "<" if it is part of the value? Other than that, this seems to work so I may use it anyways and just discard the bracket.

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