topic Re: Tricky Line break in Getting Data In

Tricky Line break

simuvid — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:07:39 GMT

Hi folks,

I have following text with no timestamps, but some numeric markers that I wanna use for a line break:

21.2 This is some dummy text. 
21.3 is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text. 21.4 This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.This is some. 21.5 This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.This. 
21.6 dummy text.This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text. 21.7 This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.This is some dummy text.

You see that there is no clear newline or timestamp, so I wanna use the numbers, divided by a point, for line breaking.

Unfortunately I can't find a way how to do that.

Any hints or help is highly appreciated!

Cheers,

simuvid

Re: Tricky Line break

ziegfried — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:23:03 GMT

Try this one:

LINE_BREAKER = (?m)(\s*)\d+\.\d+\s+
DATETIME_CONFIG=current

Re: Tricky Line break

simuvid — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:25:30 GMT

Hi Siegfried,

where is Roy? 🙂

I tried yours and also following:
LINE_BREAKER = [0-9]{0,}.[0-9]{0,}
LINE_BREAKER_LOOKBEHIND = 0
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = true

Unfortunately are both not working?!

Cheers,

Re: Tricky Line break

simuvid — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:25:33 GMT

Of course I made a minor mistake:

Leave the attribute: LINE_BREAKER_LOOKBEHIND! It is not needed here,
but even then the extraction is not working.

Re: Tricky Line break

simuvid — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:07:00 GMT

Hi ziegfried,

thanks for your help.

At least that one worked:

LINE_BREAKER = (?m)([0-9]{0,}.[0-9]{0,})

Have a great day!

Cheers,

simuvid

Re: Tricky Line break

wollinet — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:34:12 GMT

Do you want the line breaker be removed from the event ? I think

LINE_BREAKER = (?m)([0-9]{0,}.[0-9]{0,})

removes the match from the event. If you want to keep it, you need a look ahead or behind:

LINE_BREAKER = (?m)\s(?u\d+.\d+\s) SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false

Re: Tricky Line break

gkanapathy — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:59:44 GMT

Best is this, actually: ([\r\n]+)\d+.\d+\s