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Covert Object name into column name using back slash

shishirkumar
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Hello Team,

Could anyone can help me in spiting Object name into column name

Like In Query we are getting Object name as in One Column :

R:\ClientReports\OpenCaseReport\DataFiles\AmeriHealth_Open\CaseReport_20101210.txt

I wanted to spit into 6 column as A ,B,C,D,E,F

Output will be like this

Header table : A |B|C|D|E|F
Row Data : R: |ClientReports|OpenCaseReport|DataFiles|AmeriHealthOpen|CaseReportt_20101210.txt

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whrg
Motivator

Hello @shishirkumar,

Check out the rex command. You can use it to extract new fields from existing fields at search time:

| makeresults count=1 | eval Object_name="R:\ClientReports\OpenCaseReport\DataFiles\AmeriHealth_Open\CaseReport_20101210.txt"
| rex field=Object_name "^(?<A>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<B>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<C>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<D>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<E>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<F>[^\\\\]+)"
| table A,B,C,D,E,F

This will give you:

A    B               C                D           E                  F
R:   ClientReports   OpenCaseReport   DataFiles   AmeriHealth_Open   CaseReport_20101210.txt

You could also save this regular expression as a field extraction so that it extracts the fields automatically.

shishirkumar
Engager

it not working if i am remove hardcoded value that is "R:\ClientReports\OpenCaseReport\DataFiles\AmeriHealth_Open\CaseReport_20101210.txt" with my column name ?

Could You please help to resolve that.

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whrg
Motivator

What is the name of the column?
Did you set "| rex field=YOUR_COLUMN_NAME ..." accordingly?

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shishirkumar
Engager
 | makeresults count=1 | eval Object_name=Object_name
 | rex field=Object_name "^(?<A>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<B>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<C>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<D>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<E>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<F>[^\\\\]+)"
 | table A,B,C,D,E,F

Object Name is column name

This is Original Query where I wanted to add this.

index=wineventlog host=ATLINFS3 sourcetype="WinEventLog:Security" ClientReports NOT "Symantec Endpoint Protection" Object_Name = ".PDF" OR Object_Name = ".XLSX" OR Object_Name = ".TXT" | where Account_Name!="svisadmin" and Object_Name != "~$$*" | stats count(Object_Name) as TotalCount by Object_Name | sort -TotalCount

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whrg
Motivator

Try the following:

index=... | where ... | stats ... | sort ...
| rex field=Object_Name "^(?<A>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<B>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<C>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<D>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<E>[^\\\\]+)\\\\(?<F>[^\\\\]+)"

(The makeresults and eval line were just for testing purposes.)

I changed "rex field=Object_name" to "rex field=Object_Name". Field names are case sensitive.

If this does not work, could you post a screenshot of the results from this query? (Specifically of the Object_Name column.)

You can use regex101.com for testing regular expressions.

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