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regex to capture both fields as below

pavanbmishra
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Hi SMEs,

Seeking help to capture below 2 strings (Only string1 & Only string1) as below in one regex

","category":"Only string1",

","category":"a1b2c3-Only string2",

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ITWhisperer
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Often helps to be clearer 😀 Will this work?

| rex "\"category\":\".*?(?<string>[^\-\"]+)\""

 

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kamlesh_vaghela
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@pavanbmishra 

Can you please try this?

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 | rex field=_raw "\"category\":\"(.*\-)?(?<category>.*)\""

 

My Sample Search :

| makeresults | eval raw="\",\"category\":\"thisissomethingineedtocapture\",|\",\"category\":\"a1b2c3-thisissomethingialsoneedtocapture\",|\",\"category\":\"Only string1\",|\",\"category\":\"a1b2c3-Only string2\"," | eval raw=split(raw,"|")|mvexpand raw | rename raw as _raw
| rename comment as "Upto Now is sample data only" | rex field=_raw "\"category\":\"(.*\-)?(?<category>.*)\""


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KV
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pavanbmishra
Path Finder

Let me be more clear here

","category":"thisissomethingineedtocapture",

","category":"a1b2c3-thisissomethingialsoneedtocapture",

Here thisissomethinginnedtocapture & thisissomethingialsoneedtocapture should come in regex value. These both are strings and doesn't have any numeric value.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Often helps to be clearer 😀 Will this work?

| rex "\"category\":\".*?(?<string>[^\-\"]+)\""

 

ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
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| rex "\"category\":\".*(?<string>Only string\d)\""
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