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Creating multiple fields by extracting values from single field

mbasharat
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Hi,

I have a field name Family. This field contain names of husband and wife in below Figure 1 format:
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All values for field “Family” are populated in above format. In value 1, Newman is the Last Name for both husband and wife. In value 2, Stewart is the Last Name for both husband and wife. Likewise will be for the rest of the values.

What I need is, from one Family field value, I need to extract Husband’s Full Name, Husband’s First Name, Husband’s Middle Initial, Husband’s Last Name, Wife’s Full Name, Wife’s Middle Initial, Wife’s Last Name in below Figure 2 format, how?

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RegEx gives headache but if I have to have it then still ok but multiple evals will be better because it is easily understandable.

Thanks in-advance for assistance!!!

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renjith_nair
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@mbasharat ,

If the format of the field is same across all events, try

| rex field=Family "(?<Husband_First_Name>\w+)\s+(?<Husband_Middle_Name>\w+)\s+&\s+(?<Wife_First_Name>\w+)\s+(?<Wife_Middle_Name>\w+)\s+(?<LastName>\w+)"

Once the fields are available, you can concatenate them for e.g.

eval Husband_Name=Husband_First_Name." ".Husband_Middle_Name." ".LastName
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renjith_nair
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@mbasharat ,

If the format of the field is same across all events, try

| rex field=Family "(?<Husband_First_Name>\w+)\s+(?<Husband_Middle_Name>\w+)\s+&\s+(?<Wife_First_Name>\w+)\s+(?<Wife_Middle_Name>\w+)\s+(?<LastName>\w+)"

Once the fields are available, you can concatenate them for e.g.

eval Husband_Name=Husband_First_Name." ".Husband_Middle_Name." ".LastName
---
What goes around comes around. If it helps, hit it with Karma 🙂
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mbasharat
Builder

Also, is there a free tool or web portal where I can create these RegExs conveniently?

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mbasharat
Builder

Ranith...with slight adjustment for my use case....it worked perfectly...THANK YOU!!!! I will be reaching out to you for alike RegEx assistance if I may? 🙂

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