Splunk Search

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

Tags (2)
0 Karma
1 Solution

vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Try like

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

View solution in original post

renjith_nair
Legend

@rockts89 ,

Try

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

Please provide more samples if you have other patterns

---
What goes around comes around. If it helps, hit it with Karma 🙂

vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Try like

| makeresults 
| eval text="sample-3456-777-text" 
| rex field=text "-(?P<id>\d+\-\d+)-"
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

[Puzzles] Solve, Learn, Repeat: Dynamic formatting from XML events

This challenge was first posted on Slack #puzzles channelFor a previous puzzle, I needed a set of fixed-length ...

Enter the Agentic Era with Splunk AI Assistant for SPL 1.4

  &#x1f680; Your data just got a serious AI upgrade — are you ready? Say hello to the Agentic Era with the ...

Stronger Security with Federated Search for S3, GCP SQL & Australian Threat ...

Splunk Lantern is a Splunk customer success center that provides advice from Splunk experts on valuable data ...