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How to extract a string and display it as filename

ugramkonda
New Member

I have a log File as follows
07:30:57.222 02/20/2017 File "SKU_DR2_DBF_FULL_20170220_122856.csv" is received from FTP server "209.55.186.211"

Now, I need to extract the file name as SKU_DR2_DBF_FULL_20170220_122856 except the .csv Someone please help me on this.

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ugramkonda
New Member

Instead of this I have worked with IFX in Splunk

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adayton20
Contributor

Try this:

| rex field=_raw "File\s\"(?P<file>.[^\"]*)"
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DalJeanis
Legend

I thought the same thing, but see OPs "expected output is..."

richgalloway's answer is correct for that expected output.

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adayton20
Contributor

Oops. I didn't see he didn't want the file extension 😛

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ugramkonda
New Member

Expected Output is:

File 

SKU_DR2_DBF_FULL_20170220_122856

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

... | rex "File \"(?<file>[^\.]+)" | ...
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