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Extract Last 12 Characters

IRHM73
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Hi, I wonder whether someone could help me please.

I have the following string, which I'm trying to extract the last 12 characters i.e. A1B-CDEFB-NOT

claim-a-token|N5Y-UWLB-NOT

I've tried using the following regex /|(?[^\s]+) but unfortunately it extracts the whole string and not just the last 12 characters, and I'm a little unclear why.

Could someone perhaps look at this please and offer some guidance on where I've gone wrong.

Many thanks

Chris

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi IRHM73,
if you haven't spaces in your string, this is your regex:

(?<field>[^ ]{12})$

if instead you have spaces in your string, you could use this regex:

(?<field>.{12})$

Bye.
Giuseppe

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi IRHM73,
if you haven't spaces in your string, this is your regex:

(?<field>[^ ]{12})$

if instead you have spaces in your string, you could use this regex:

(?<field>.{12})$

Bye.
Giuseppe

IRHM73
Motivator

Hi @cusello, thank you very much for this, it works great.

Many thanks and kind regards

Chris

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