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Could you please help me with using REX/REGEX inside eval?

usscommunity
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Hi

Could you please help me with using REX/REGEX inside eval? Here is what I'm trying to do 

| makeresults
| eval User="user1=test@domain.com | use1=test1"
| makemv delim="|" User | mvexpand User
| fields - _time
| eval signature="87347,123,1,0,84"
| makemv signature delim=","
| mvexpand signature
| eval account=if(like(signature,"87347") AND like(User,"%@%" )," REGEX USER TO KEEP EVERYTHING BEFORE @ "," DONT MAKE ANY CHANGES , KEEP THE USER WITH @")

Thanks 

 

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
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Given that the only time you change user is if signature is 87347 and in that instance you want everything before the @, just use split

| eval account=if(like(signature,"87347"),mvindex(split(user,"@"),0),user)
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yuanliu
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

An alternative is to use replace

| eval account=if(like(signature,"87347"),replace(user,"@.*",""),user)

Like ITWhisperer said, you do not need to test for %@%  if your final operation is to get rid of @%.  In the code you illustrated, the test for signature also do not include wildcard.  Therefore, like(signature, "87347") is semantically identical to signature=="87347", but slightly more expensive.  Thanks for bring my attention to function "like()", BTW.  I only used match() before.

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