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How to extract a string from _raw?

avadhutha
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I have a string like below and unable to extract accuratly with rex command please suggest  any alternative way.

_raw----------------

{lable:harish,message: Say something, location:India, state:TS,qual:xyz}

{message: say nothing,lable:harish, location:India, state:TS,qual:xyz}

{lable:harish, location:India, state:TS,qual:xyz,message: say splunk splunk answers}

 

The message value is randomized location and I need to pick the message value.

 

When I try with below command it is not considering the proper end position. Please suggest

|rex "message:(?<Message_value>.*)[,|}]" |table Message_Value

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
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Field names are case-sensitive, also, you are using a greedy match which may pick up more than you bargained for - try this

|rex "message:(?<Message_Value>.*?)[,|}]" |table Message_Value

 

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ITWhisperer
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SplunkTrust

Field names are case-sensitive, also, you are using a greedy match which may pick up more than you bargained for - try this

|rex "message:(?<Message_Value>.*?)[,|}]" |table Message_Value

 

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avadhutha
Explorer

Thank you so much.., I was trying a lot of thing like field extraction and regex and you helped it well with ?.

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