I am having issue finding a way to standardize email for a query that will make the output "First Last" to a new field.
there are mainly two email types in "first.x.last@domain.com" or "first.last@domain.com"
The first works for "first.x.last@domain.com":
| makeresults
| eval name="first.x.last@domain.com"
| rex field=name "^(?<Name>[^@]+)"
| eval tmp=split(Name,".")
| eval tmp2=split(Name,".")
| eval FullName=mvindex(tmp,0) | eval FName=mvindex(tmp2,2) | table FullName FName | eval newName=mvappend(FullName,FName) | eval FN=mvjoin(newName, " ")
| table FN
And this for "first.last@domain.com"
| makeresults
| eval name="first.last@domain.com"
| rex field=name "^(?<Name>[^@]+)"
| eval tmp=split(Name,".") | eval FullName=mvindex(tmp,0,1) | eval FN=mvjoin(FullName, " ")
| table FN
Any recommendations of how to accomplish getting an output of "First Last" to one field for both email types?
This rex command will extract first and last names from both formats.
| rex "(?<first>[^\.]+)\.(?:\w\.)?(?<last>[^@]+)"
| eval FullName = first . " " . last
This rex command will extract first and last names from both formats.
| rex "(?<first>[^\.]+)\.(?:\w\.)?(?<last>[^@]+)"
| eval FullName = first . " " . last
This worked, I couldn't get the regex right.
I was using to pass as a subsearch so the only thing I need was to add the "quotes" around it. So I did a mvindex and added format on the end.
Thank you!
If the end goal just to combine the assumed first and last with a space, why not just do that literally? Like
| eval name = split(mvindex(split(name, "@"), 0), ".")
| eval FN = mvindex(name, 0) . " " . mvindex(name, -1)
Here is an emulation that you can run and compare with real data
| makeresults
| eval name=mvappend("first1.x.last1@domain.com", "first2.last2@domain.com")
| mvexpand name
``` data emulation above ```
The output is something like
FN | name |
first1 last1 | first1 x last1 |
first2 last2 | first2 last2 |