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How to use regex to extract the last value in a line from a known field of a data model?

rafamss
Contributor

Hi guys,

How to extract one portion of the data model when I have the name of the field.
Sample: field: status, with the following values:

teste\teste1\teste2;teste\teste3\teste4;teste\teste5\teste6

How do I extract the last value in each line?

Thanks

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aljohnson_splun
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

By default, if you are using a data model and the pivot method of creating visualizations, regular expressions are not immediately available. You'll need to add a regular expression attribute to your data model.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Knowledge/Addaregularexpressionattribute

If you're looking for the third teste in each semicolon delimited group, your regex might look like

 "(?<last_of_three_teste>teste\d)(?:\;|$)"

Else if you're just looking for the very last value, it might look like

 "(?<last_teste>teste\d$)"

If you have the ability, you might want to just extract field at search time.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Knowledge/ExtractfieldsinteractivelywithIFX

^ Please make sure you choose your version of Splunk when viewing the docs.

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aljohnson_splun
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

By default, if you are using a data model and the pivot method of creating visualizations, regular expressions are not immediately available. You'll need to add a regular expression attribute to your data model.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Knowledge/Addaregularexpressionattribute

If you're looking for the third teste in each semicolon delimited group, your regex might look like

 "(?<last_of_three_teste>teste\d)(?:\;|$)"

Else if you're just looking for the very last value, it might look like

 "(?<last_teste>teste\d$)"

If you have the ability, you might want to just extract field at search time.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Knowledge/ExtractfieldsinteractivelywithIFX

^ Please make sure you choose your version of Splunk when viewing the docs.

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rafamss
Contributor

Thanks. I'll test and return for you.

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