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How to extract a value from a field with spaces?

yozhbk
Explorer

Hello,

I'm doing a simple alert, which looks like this:

SIP/3102-in-* you=* | table you, id

Which should extract 2 tables from message like this:

Aug  1 10:40:08 192.168.1.201 Aug  1 10:39:17 asterisk[4015]: VERBOSE[4015]:     -- Executing [s@default:1] Set("SIP/3102-in-00000000", "you=11111111111|id=""Caller ID""") in new stack

What I get in return is actually this:

"11111111 Caller" (in a table form of course), but the ID is missing. Anything that comes in only the first word before space is shown.

I understand it's due to the way I extract it, but I'm really not sure how to form a search to make it properly produce the full string. Any help is appreciated.

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sundareshr
Legend

Try this

SIP/3102-in-* you=* | rex "id=\"\"(?<id>[^\"]+)" |  table you, id

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Jeremiah
Motivator

Try adding

| rex "id=\"\"(?<id>[^\"]+)"

to your search or

extract-ID=id=\"\"(?<id>[^\"]+)

to your props.conf stanza for this sourcetype.

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yozhbk
Explorer

Thanks, but it seems to only work on some messages and not others....

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gabriel_vasseur
Contributor

You would have more/better help if you actually posted examples and said "it worked for these ... but didn't work for those ...". Give as much detail as possible.

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sundareshr
Legend

Try this

SIP/3102-in-* you=* | rex "id=\"\"(?<id>[^\"]+)" |  table you, id

yozhbk
Explorer

I think I got it, in the example I showed, I was testing with double "" around the ID= field, so it worked with that. But my regular messages look like this.

Aug  1 11:27:04 192.168.1.201 Aug  1 11:26:13 asterisk[4015]: VERBOSE[4015]:     -- Executing [s@default:1] Set("SIP/3102-in-00000000", "you=111111111|id=CALLER ID") in new stack

Really sorry for the confusion. I can add the double "" back, but I really do want to understand why just changing to

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yozhbk
Explorer

Guys thank you so much. I figured it out. I guess I need to pay more attention. This is what my final search string looks like...

SIP/3102-in-* you=* | rex "id=(?[^\"]+)" |  table you, id

sundareshr
Legend

@yozhbk, please accept the answer to close it out

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sundareshr
Legend

rex "id=\"\"(?[^)]+)" will not work because it is expecting r " after =. In your data, it appears, there's no quotes after the = sign. To capture, when no quotes, try this

SIP/3102-in-* you=* | rex "id=(?<id>[^\"]+)" |  table you, id
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yozhbk
Explorer

rex "id=\"\"(?[^)]+)" doesnt work ?

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yozhbk
Explorer

Hello,

It worked for one of the entrees, but not the others... The length is always changing and so does the placement of the space, basicly its a callers ID that i`m trying to extract.

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sundareshr
Legend

This regex looks for id="" and captures everything after that till ", so the length should matter, as long as id="" exists. Can you share a sample where it doesn't match

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