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Why am I always getting an error when finishing an extraction of new fields using the Field Extractor utility in Splunk 6.2?

StijnJans
New Member

In version 6.2 adding new fields via the wizard always results in this error:
In handler 'props-extract': Argument 'value' contains invalid character. e.g. for regex : ^(?:[^\|\n]*\|){4}\s+(?P[^ ]+)[^\]\n]*\]\s+\[(?P[^\]]+)

Anyone any idea what is causing this? Tnx!

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

There appears to be a unicode escape character (U+001B) in your regex...?

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