topic Re: How to write the regex to extract numbers between two hyphens? in Splunk Search https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207098#M60365 <P>is it this simple?</P> <PRE><CODE>\-\d\d\- \- = escapes the 1st hyphen \d\d = 2 digits \- = escapes the 2nd hyphen </CODE></PRE> <P>-ALF</P> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:31:12 GMT angelo_fazzina 2016-02-17T20:31:12Z How to write the regex to extract numbers between two hyphens? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207096#M60363 <P>I have the following string <STRONG>2016-02-17</STRONG> field and I would like to extract the 02 between the hyphens. Does someone have a regex that will do this?</P> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:25:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207096#M60363 jhayIV 2016-02-17T20:25:33Z Re: How to write the regex to extract numbers between two hyphens? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207097#M60364 <P>Sure,</P> <PRE><CODE>\d{4}-(?&lt;month&gt;\d{2})-\d{2} </CODE></PRE> <P>Check out <A href="http://www.regex101.com">www.regex101.com</A> It can help with building out/learning regular expressions.</P> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:28:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207097#M60364 vasildavid 2016-02-17T20:28:13Z Re: How to write the regex to extract numbers between two hyphens? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207098#M60365 <P>is it this simple?</P> <PRE><CODE>\-\d\d\- \- = escapes the 1st hyphen \d\d = 2 digits \- = escapes the 2nd hyphen </CODE></PRE> <P>-ALF</P> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:31:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207098#M60365 angelo_fazzina 2016-02-17T20:31:12Z Re: How to write the regex to extract numbers between two hyphens? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207099#M60366 <P>Thank you so much I think I messed up the regex command in the search field <BR /> I entered the string below in the search field:</P> <PRE><CODE>rex mode=sed"\d{4}-(?\d{2})-\d{2}" </CODE></PRE> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:45:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-write-the-regex-to-extract-numbers-between-two-hyphens/m-p/207099#M60366 jhayIV 2016-02-17T21:45:06Z