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How to I exclude a field value that contains numbers?

Jhand2016
Explorer

I have a situation where we break out user classes by adding numeric characters at the end of their username. As an example a student may have a username of "jjabrams20" whereas a faculty member or staff would not have the numbers at the end and may be "glucas". I am running a search on authenticated users and want to exclude students from the search but am fairly new to modifying the search parameters. Was thinking originally to use:
"sourcetype=loginslog action=login | where username!=" argument might work but have not found a suitable regex or splunk language to match the alphanumeric exclusion.

Thanks,
Johnny

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somesoni2
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Try like this

sourcetype=loginslog action=login | where NOT match(username,"\d+$")

OR
Updated command name

 sourcetype=loginslog action=login | regex username!=".+\d+$"

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somesoni2
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Try like this

sourcetype=loginslog action=login | where NOT match(username,"\d+$")

OR
Updated command name

 sourcetype=loginslog action=login | regex username!=".+\d+$"

Jhand2016
Explorer

I'm trying both, so far no good. It will accept option 1 but returns no results even though individually I can see the events. Option 2 wants to wrap the rex in a format of (?.) as an example but doesn't split out the usernames with/without numerics.

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somesoni2
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Can you check if there are any extra space or something is there. Both (2nd one after update, works fine with sample data, see these run anywhere sample searches)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval username=split("jjabrams20 glucas"," ") | mvexpand username | table username 
| where NOT match(username,"\d+$")

| gentimes start=-1 | eval username=split("jjabrams20 glucas"," ") | mvexpand username | table username | regex username!="\d+$"
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Jhand2016
Explorer

Sorry, it actually started working, not sure why but after about 15 minutes the same exact text returned results.

I used the following successfully:

| where NOT match(username,"\d+$")

Thanks again.

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sundareshr
Legend

Or try this

... | regex username="[A-Za-z]+$"
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