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JDukeSplunk
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I need to break down a source file name into it's meaningful parts with a regex, however the convention of the file changes a little depending on what type of log it is.

I've pulled the field "file" from source with

| rex field=source "(?P<file>[^\\\]+)$"

And this tables out to something like these.

Over all for dev, for that specific day

*HealthDataFax-DEV-2019-03-29.csv*

Over all for UAT for that month.

*HealthDataFax-UAT-2019-03.csv*

And here's where my brain breaks..
Environment data for a specific user and specific yyyy-mm-dd.

*HealthDataFax-PROD-Username-2019-03-29.csv*

So I'd like to be able to turn each of these file pieces into a field without having to tell the developer he needs to reformat these file names.

FileName/Environment/Username/Year/Month/Day

Thanks,

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somesoni2
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Give this a try (runanywhere sample, everything before rex is to generate sample data)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval file="Health-DEV-2019-03-29.csv HEALTH-UAT-2019-03.csv HEALTH-PROD-user1-2019-03-29.csv" | table file | makemv file | mvexpand file 
| rex field=file "^(?<FileName>[^-]+)-(?<Env>[^-]+)-(?<user>[^-]*)-*(?<Year>\d{4})-(?<Month>\d{2})-*(?<Date>\d*)\.csv"

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somesoni2
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Give this a try (runanywhere sample, everything before rex is to generate sample data)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval file="Health-DEV-2019-03-29.csv HEALTH-UAT-2019-03.csv HEALTH-PROD-user1-2019-03-29.csv" | table file | makemv file | mvexpand file 
| rex field=file "^(?<FileName>[^-]+)-(?<Env>[^-]+)-(?<user>[^-]*)-*(?<Year>\d{4})-(?<Month>\d{2})-*(?<Date>\d*)\.csv"
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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Give a try

| makeresults 
| eval file="HealthDataFax-PROD-Username-2019-03-29.csv" 
| eval temp = split(file,"-"), FileName= mvindex(temp,0),Environment=mvindex(temp,1),Username=mvindex(temp,2),Year=mvindex(temp,3),Month=mvindex(temp,4),Date=mvindex(split(mvindex(temp,5),"."),0) |table FileName,Environment,Username,Year,Month,Date

OR

| makeresults 
| eval file="HealthDataFax-PROD-Username-2019-03-29.csv" 
| rex field=file "(?P<FileName>[^-]+)-(?P<Environment>[^-]+)-(?P<Username>[^-]+)-(?P<Year>[^-]+)-(?P<Month>[^-]+)-(?P<Day>[^.]+)"
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