Help using regex to break a comma separated string

[mdurdel]

I have a text string field in my events which contains one or many date/time stamps within the string. The string is comma separated with a leading comma at the beginning of the string and no trailing comma at the end.

Example String:

,05-NOV-19 10.24.36.309000 PM AMERICA/CHICAGO,08-NOV-19 12.30.05.471000 PM AMERICA/CHICAGO,08-NOV-19 12.32.28.525000 PM AMERICA/CHICAGO

I need help writing a regex/rex statement that will break this string and return only the first date/time stamp as emboldened above.

Any help is appreciated.

[woodcock · Accepted solution]

Like this:

... | rex field=ExistingFieldMaybe_raw "[,\s]+(?<MyCaptureFieldName>[^,]+)"

[mdurdel]

@woodcock...Thank you for the response. This did work to extract the value I am looking for.

[arjunpkishore5]

You just need the first in the list, use max_match=1

| rex field=<your field> max_match=1 ",(?<first_field>[^,]+)"

[mdurdel]

@arjunpkishore5...Thank you for the response. This did work to extract the value I am looking for.

[rashi83]

Hi , I have this regular expression - [^"\n]"\w+\s+(?P[^"]+)
but when I try to do | rex field =_raw "[^"\n]"\w+\s+(?P[^"]+)" it doesn't work

[richgalloway]

You don't have to use rex. Another way to do it is to use split to break the field at commas then use mvindex to grab the second value.

... | eval foo=mvindex(split(_raw, ","), 1)

[manuelostertag]

Indeed, I didn't think to solve it with split 🙂

In this case split vs regex:
"Too easy - let's muddle it up some..."

[mdurdel]

@richgalloway...Thank you for the response. This did work to extract the value I am looking for.

[richgalloway]

@mdurdel, If your problem is resolved, please accept an answer to help future readers.

[Anantha123]

Hi,

Try this

|rex field=_raw \,(?P<Date>[^\s]+) (?P<Time>[^\s]+) | table Date Time

Regards,
Anantha.