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How to use regex on field names?

tamakg
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For example.

Is there any way to convert this:

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into this?

Don't care about the numbers but the value of the second column (new) is a substr of the previous headers. Of course there are many other different "Disks".

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somesoni2
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Try like this

your current search giving table in first screenshot
| untable _time fieldname fieldval
| eval fieldname=replace(fieldname,"^(.+_)(Avg_.+)","\2") 
| xyseries _time fieldname fieldval

If above works for you, look at definition of untable/xyseries command here, to understand the usage better:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkLight/7.1.2/References/Listofsearchcommands

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try like this

your current search giving table in first screenshot
| untable _time fieldname fieldval
| eval fieldname=replace(fieldname,"^(.+_)(Avg_.+)","\2") 
| xyseries _time fieldname fieldval

If above works for you, look at definition of untable/xyseries command here, to understand the usage better:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkLight/7.1.2/References/Listofsearchcommands

tamakg
Path Finder

Almost there. Missing the "removed field prefix" as a new column value.

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somesoni2
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I didn't understand. What are you getting now and what's expected?

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jodyfsu
Path Finder

If you can provide a sample event we can probably figure this out.

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tamakg
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jodyfsu
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| rex field=PhysicalDisk_0_C_Avg__Disk_Bytes_Read "(?<DRIVE>\w+\_\d\_\w)\_(?<AVDBR>.[^\s]+)"
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jodyfsu
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See if that works.

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tamakg
Path Finder

Nope. New fields are empty...

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