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How to apply rex on a field/variable?

viggor
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I have a basic rex question:

In my splunk query I have:

| eval foo = ....

and I would like to be able to apply rex on foo but I don't seem to able to do so?

Does anybody know how to apply splunk regex on a variable defined in a query, such a foo above?

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micahkemp
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| rex field=<field> "<regex>"

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micahkemp
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| rex field=<field> "<regex>"
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