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How do I write the regex to extract the date portion of this search result?

stocksltd
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I'm new to the Splunk community. I'm trying to extract the date portion of this search result

M91040FA7104_Tue Jan 26 14:12:15 CST 2016

so everything after the _. I have been banging on this for 4 hours and can't seem to get it to produce anything.

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somesoni2
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How about this

your base search | rex field=YourFieldName "_(?<YourDateField>\w+\s+\w+\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+\w+\s+\d+)$" | eval YourDateFieldInEpoch=strptime(YourDateField,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y")

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

How about this

your base search | rex field=YourFieldName "_(?<YourDateField>\w+\s+\w+\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+\w+\s+\d+)$" | eval YourDateFieldInEpoch=strptime(YourDateField,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y")
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