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Bad regex value

Mfmahdi
Path Finder

Hi there 

Every time when I restart my indexers I'm getting what you see in the attachment and this goes for all my 12 indexers how this can be fixed and the fix should be done from manage node or for each indexer can any one help please 

thanks in advance 

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Mfmahdi
Path Finder

It did not work my friend 😞

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Mfmahdi
Path Finder

here is the attachment 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try putting a backslash in front of the hyphens on the character ranges e.g. [\w\-]

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Mfmahdi
Path Finder

It did not work my friend 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Perhaps, if you want more help, you could provide more information - was it the same error or something else?

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