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Can you help me with my regular expression extraction?

swetar
New Member

Can anyone please suggest to me how I can break this event...

PATH="/user/hive/datastore/xyz.db/file_name1"
PATH="/user/hive/datastore/xyz.db/file_name2"
PATH="/user/hive/datastore/xyz.db/file_name3"

Into this required output:

required output 
file_name1
file_name2
file_name3

Thanks in advance
swetar

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1 Solution

Rob2520
Communicator
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adonio
Ultra Champion

hello there,

try this search anywhere:

  | makeresults count=1
    | eval  PATH="\"/user/hive/datastore/xyz.db/file_name1\";\"/user/hive/datastore/xyz.db/file_name2\";\"/user/hive/datastore/xyz.db/file_name3\""
    | makemv PATH delim=";"
    | mvexpand PATH
    | table PATH
    | rename COMMENT as "above generates data, below is your solution"
    | rex field=PATH "\"\/(?<dir_1>[^\/]+)\/(?<dir_2>[^\/]+)\/(?<dir_3>[^\/]+)\/(?<dir_4>[^\/]+)\/(?<file_name>[^\"]+)"

screenshot:
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swetar
New Member

Thank you for your reply. I was able to do this ,using the below expression

"\/(?[^\/]+)$"

Many thanks

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swetar
New Member

Thank you for your reply . I tried in this way. But didn't worked. Can you please suggest me,where I am wrong .
sourcetype="XXXXXX"| mvexpand PATH
| table PATH
| rex field=PATH "\"\/(?[^\/]+)\/(?[^\/]+)\/(?[^\/]+)\/(?[^\/]+)\/(?[^\"]+)"

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Rob2520
Communicator

alt text

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swetar
New Member

Thank you for your reply. I was able to to do this ,using the below expression

"\/(?[^\/]+)$"

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swetar
New Member

Thank you for your reply . I tried this way but didn't work. I am new to regular expression. Can you please suggest me with complete syntax.

Many thanks
Swetar

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