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What regex can extract everything up to a specific character?

Steve_A200
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Hi,

I need assistance with writing a regex that extracts all characters upto the character "_" underscore.

so, the data could look like this:

field1:

ABCD_1234234
EFG_12349879
HIJK_12349850

And I would like to only see:

ABCD
EFG
HIJK

I tired this however it is not doing the trick:


| regex field1 = "^.*?(?=\_)"

regex101 seems to show it working but ... I must be missing something when converting it into splunk.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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abi2023
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basesearch | rex field=field1 "^(?<field2>[^_]+)_" 

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abi2023
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basesearch | rex field=field1 "^(?<field2>[^_]+)_" 

Steve_A200
Path Finder

Thank you, that worked exactly how I needed it to work.

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