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Extract string within specific tag

kirangurram — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 04:15:05 GMT

Hello Experts ,
Need your assistance to extract output from one of the below XML tags.
I have three XML tags with same naming convention and I want only extract specific value 3 from the below tags.
can you help me to provide rex commend (or) any other commend which will only extract value 3 from the below tags.

<Val Ty="CHAR">Feedback</Val>
<Val Ty="CHAR">3</Val>
<Val Ty="CHAR">TRST</Val>

your help is much appreciated.

Re: Extract string within specific tag

vnravikumar — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 04:25:06 GMT

Try this

|makeresults  |eval tag="<Val Ty=\"CHAR\">Feedback</Val>
<Val Ty=\"CHAR\">3</Val>
<Val Ty=\"CHAR\">TRST</Val>" |rex field=tag "CHAR\"\>(?P<output>(\d+))\<"

| makeresults 
| eval tag="<Val Ty=\"CHAR\">Feedback</Val>
 <Val Ty=\"CHAR\">3</Val>
 <Val Ty=\"CHAR\">TRST</Val>" 
| rex field=tag max_match=0 "\"CHAR\">(?P<output>.+)<" 
| eval result = mvindex(output,1)

Re: Extract string within specific tag

kirangurram — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:23:09 GMT

Thanks @vnravikumar , below solution works.
Second solution didnt give me desired results.

|makeresults |eval tag="Feedback
3
TRST" |rex field=tag "CHAR\">(?P(\d+))<"