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Error: Regex: Missing Closing Parenthesis

mahesh27
Communicator

With following search getting error as Missing Closing Parenthesis in splunk.
tried same rex in regex101 it was working.

index=digitalguardian "appStatus"
|rex ,\\"appStatus\\":\\"(?<status>\w+\s\w+)\\"

 

2024-02-21 {\"callCenterrecontactevent\":{\"customer\":{\"id\":\"6ghty678h\", \"idtypecd\":\"connect_id\"}, \"languagecd\":\"eng\",\"vhannelInstance\":: {\"status\":{\"serverStatusCode\":\"400\",\"severity\":\"Error\",\"additionalStatus\":[{\"statusCode\":400, \"appStatus\":\"Schema Validation\",\"serverity\":\"Error\"

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

First, the regular expression in the rex command must be enclosed in quotation marks.

Second, you're being caught by rex's escape trap.  Embedded quotation marks must be escaped, but the multiple levels of parsing in SPL call for 3 escape characters.

| rex ", \\\\\"appStatus\\\\\":\\\\\"(?<status>\w+\s\w+)\\\\\""
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