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Field Extraction - Parsing - Regex

abhijitnayak
New Member

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to extract fields from the multivalued Field which has the following

http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?correlator=1329033559899&output=json_html&callback=GA_goo...

The parameters are usually separated by param="Value"

From the above text = GA_googleSetAdContentsBySlotForSync

Parameter = &callback
value = GA_googleSetAdContentsBySlotForSync

Parameter = &flash
value = 10.3.181.34

The text above is one field and this parameter extraction has to be done only to websites which are search engines ..

Is there a way to extract the field values even if it is not dynamic way of extraction?

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abhijitnayak
New Member

GOT IT!!!
source="POC.txt" | regex Field2="google" | makemv delim="&" Field2

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mikelanghorst
Motivator

Did you look at all the fields, not just those shown on the left? Click Edit, and in the pop-up window that field should already be extracted as "correlator".

Splunk should automatically extract a value any time it sees a key=value. How it determines what are "interesting fields" I'm not sure.

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abhijitnayak
New Member

Hi Mike , I dont this its so easy .
We would have to parse and cut the words between &param1="WORD"&param2
Let me know if there is a way to do this.

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abhijitnayak
New Member

Field2 that needs to be extracted is 1329033560.. can you please suggest the regex to derive this multi valued field?

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abhijitnayak
New Member

I am new to splunk. Can you please tell how to achieve this? I am unable to find the search query using splunk

| eval Field2=substr(message, charindex(message, "&lmt="), charindex(message, "&dt="))

I have used some thing as above but charindex doesnt work.

here "message" is the Field which is been extracted during the data import.

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Ayn
Legend

I don't understand what's not working and how you would like things to work. Could you state your problem more clearly please?

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