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Extract id from string using rex

rockts89
Engager

Hi all

How to extract id from String using rex?

sample:

sample-3456-777-text

result:

id
3456-777

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Try like

| makeresults 
| eval text="sample-3456-777-text" 
| rex field=text "-(?P<id>\d+\-\d+)-"

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renjith_nair
Legend

@rockts89 ,

Try

\w+-(?<id>[\d-]+)-\w+

Please provide more samples if you have other patterns

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Try like

| makeresults 
| eval text="sample-3456-777-text" 
| rex field=text "-(?P<id>\d+\-\d+)-"
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