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Help in writing regex

Deepz2612
Explorer

Hi,
I wanted to extract the words that comes after 3 back slashes as field API

Please help me in writing the regular expression

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

| rex field=_raw "\\{3}(?<API>\w+)"

I took you literally and I am quite sure that what you said you need is not actually what you need.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi Deepz2612,
if you want to use the rex command, use this:

your_search
| rex "\/\w+\/\w+\/(?<my_field>.*)"
| ...

You can test it at https://regex101.com/r/EceD4t/1

Bye.
Giuseppe

kmorris_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Give this a try:

\/\w+\/\w+\/(?\w+)

Check out regex101.com if you aren't familiar. It is a good place to work out / test regex against text.

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