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Regex to parse a string with commas

asdfxqwert
Explorer

I have a field with values like below

(a)

(a,b)

(c)

(a,c)

 

I am trying to parse these values, and get stats like below 

 

a 3

b 1

c 2

0 Karma
1 Solution

isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

you can try this

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="F1
(a)
(a,b)
(c)
(a,c)"
| multikv forceheader=1
```Above generates sample data```
| rex mode=sed field=F1 "s/[\(\)]//g"
| makemv delim="," F1
| mvexpand F1
| stats count by F1

r. Ismo 

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

you can try this

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="F1
(a)
(a,b)
(c)
(a,c)"
| multikv forceheader=1
```Above generates sample data```
| rex mode=sed field=F1 "s/[\(\)]//g"
| makemv delim="," F1
| mvexpand F1
| stats count by F1

r. Ismo 

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