topic Re: Help with regex in Splunk Search

Help with regex

vrmandadi — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:07:05 GMT

I have the below sample data

sample 1
`<TargetCode key="Zip5">78216</TargetCode>`

sample 2

<adm:TargetCode key="Zip5" account="1">78216</adm:TargetCode>

I am using the below regex
*\"Zip5\"|>(?<ZipCode>.*?)\<\/.* ...but this is not extracting the one in sample 2.

Thanks in advance

Re: Help with regex

somesoni2 — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:16:05 GMT

Which value you want to extract and what's the field name? Please format the code/regex by selecting it and pressing Ctrl+K so that formatting is retained.

Re: Help with regex

nickhills — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:17:03 GMT

Hows this?
Zip5".*?\>(?<ZIP>\d+)\<

amended to extract to "Zip"

Re: Help with regex

micahkemp — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:30:48 GMT

Try Zip5[^>]+>([^>]+)<

Re: Help with regex

niketn — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:36:47 GMT

Please try the following run anywhere code based on your sample data:

| makeresults
| eval sample="<TargetCode key=\"Zip5\">78216</TargetCode>"
| append [| makeresults
| eval sample="<adm:TargetCode key=\"Zip5\" account=\"1\">78216</adm:TargetCode>"]
| rex field=sample "key=\"Zip5\".*\>(?<Zip5>[^\<]+)\<\/"
| table sample Zip5

Your data seems to be xml. Any reason for not having KV_MODE=xml in props.conf or not using spath with your raw data?

Re: Help with regex

vrmandadi — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:52:57 GMT

I want to extract the 78216 into field called ZIP

Re: Help with regex

vrmandadi — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:54:28 GMT

It worked.Thanks