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Concatenate onto Regex

edschembor
Path Finder

I'm trying to concatenate something onto one of my regex's.

ie:

index=eph | rex "EPH(?P<EPHID>\d+)" | table EPHID, _raw

I want the EPHID regex to be EPH902834091 instead of just 902834091. So even though the regex is "EPH(?P\d+)", I want the "EPH" at the beginning included. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!!!

1 Solution

aweitzman
Motivator

Why not just include it in the group?

rex "(?<EPHID>EPH\d+)"

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Ayn
Legend

Just include the EPH in the matching group.

index=eph | rex "(?<EPHID>EPH\d+)" | table EPHID, _raw

aweitzman
Motivator

Why not just include it in the group?

rex "(?<EPHID>EPH\d+)"

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