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Can you help me create a regex to extract a value from an event?

zacksoft
Contributor

Below is a sample event. I could use some help in regex in fetching the value "29.3445667" present in the last part of the sentence that starts with [BRU Weak Reference.........

e.g. [BRU Weak Reference, 0.0008795 secs] 17G->12G(18G), 29.3445337 secs]

2018-12-07T14:41:46.129-0500: 358613.141: [Fball FC (Allocation Failure) 
2018-12-07T14:41:55.974-0500: 358622.986: [SoftReference, 101571 refs, 0.0364703 secs]2018-12-07T14:41:56.010-0500: 358623.023: [WeakReference, 70294 refs, 0.0118371 secs]2018-12-07T14:41:56.022-0500: 358623.035: [FinalReference, 3823 refs, 0.0020774 secs]2018-12-07T14:41:56.024-0500: 358623.037: [PhantomReference, 271 refs, 993 refs, 0.0002618 secs]2018-12-07T14:41:56.024-0500: 358623.037: [BRU Weak Reference, 0.0008795 secs]
 17G->12G(18G), 29.3445337 secs]
   [Eden: 0.0B(920.0M)->0.0B(3408.0M) Survivors: 0.0B->0.0B Heap: 17.7G(18.0G)->12.4G(18.0G)], [Metaspace: 683138K->682699K(1738752K)]
 [Times: user=56.84 sys=0.00, real=29.35 secs] 
2018-12-07T14:42:15.475-0500: 358642.487: [GC concurrent-mark-abort]
2018-12-07T14:42:16.327-0500: 358643.339: [GC pause (G1 Evacuation Pause) (young)
Desired survivor size 226492416 bytes, new threshold 15 (max 15)
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whrg
Motivator

Hello @zacksoft,

Try this:

BRU Weak Reference,[^,]+,\s+(?<bru_weak_reference>[^\s]+)

You can verify here: regex101.com

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whrg
Motivator

Hello @zacksoft,

Try this:

BRU Weak Reference,[^,]+,\s+(?<bru_weak_reference>[^\s]+)

You can verify here: regex101.com

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