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Help with regex for field extraction

mbasharat
Builder

Hi,

I have a field value as below.
These are all fixed positions all across.

/COMPANY LOCATIONS/PA/PHILADELPHIA/ABC - PHILADELPHIA/

I need two regex:

  1. Only State extracted from above new fields labeled as STATE
  2. All fields extracted as LOCATION, STATE, CITY, CODE

Thanks in advance!!!

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mbasharat
Builder

After banging my head for a bit, I coded below run any where and it worked!!! 🙂

| gentimes start=-1 

| eval Location="/COMPANY LOCATIONS/PA/PHILADELPHIA/ABC - PHILADELPHIA/"

| table Location

| rex field=Location "^(?:[^\/\n]*\/){2}(?P<State>\w+)\/(?P<City>[^\/]+)\/(?P<Code>[^\/]+)"

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="/COMPANY LOCATIONS/PA/PHILADELPHIA/ABC - PHILADELPHIA/" 
| rex "^\/(?<WHATEVER>[^\/]+)\/(?<LOCATION>[^\/]+)\/(?<STATE>[^\/]+)\/(?<CITY>[^\/]+)\/"

I am not sure what is supposed to be CODE ... ?

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mbasharat
Builder

After banging my head for a bit, I coded below run any where and it worked!!! 🙂

| gentimes start=-1 

| eval Location="/COMPANY LOCATIONS/PA/PHILADELPHIA/ABC - PHILADELPHIA/"

| table Location

| rex field=Location "^(?:[^\/\n]*\/){2}(?P<State>\w+)\/(?P<City>[^\/]+)\/(?P<Code>[^\/]+)"
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arjunpkishore5
Motivator

Could you please provide some more sample inputs and the expected output. For example, when you say you need LOCATION, STATE, CITY, CODE, what values should each of these hold with respect to your sample data?

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mbasharat
Builder

Hi Arjun. See my own answer to my own question. Took some head bangs at this time of Friday! 🙂

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