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Field Extraction

ReachDataScient
Explorer

If the event has field names and values both separated by pipe, how to do field extraction.

Field1|Value1|Field2|Value2|Field3|Value3...........

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anjambha
Communicator

Hi,

Try This run search anywhere

| makeresults | eval data="Field1|Value1|Field2|Value2|" | rex field=data "Field1\|(?<Field1>\w+)\|Field2\|(?<Field2>\w+)\|"

or

base search |  rex field=data "Field1\|(?<Field1>\w+)\|Field2\|(?<Field2>\w+)\|"
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