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How to extract a string using regex?

AbubakarShahid
New Member

Hello all,

I am trying to write a regex to extract a string out an interesting field that I have already created and wanted to extract a string out by using regex.
I created a table that displays 4 different columns and from one of the column, I want to extract out "Message accepted for delivery" and put it into a new column. is there a way to do that. Much appreciate it.

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damiensurat
Contributor

You sure can. But before I get into it, here's a site that can help with your regex expression extractions:
https://regex101.com/
It would be better if you supplied the whole string in the field containing "Message accepted for delivery", as well as your search, as I can better answer this question with those provided, but this rex should do the trick:

yoursearch | rex field=fieldContainingYourMessage "(?<Message1>Message accepted for delivery)"

What the search above will do will provide you with a new field called Message1 and the content/values will be "Message accepted for delivery"

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damiensurat
Contributor

You sure can. But before I get into it, here's a site that can help with your regex expression extractions:
https://regex101.com/
It would be better if you supplied the whole string in the field containing "Message accepted for delivery", as well as your search, as I can better answer this question with those provided, but this rex should do the trick:

yoursearch | rex field=fieldContainingYourMessage "(?<Message1>Message accepted for delivery)"

What the search above will do will provide you with a new field called Message1 and the content/values will be "Message accepted for delivery"

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

We can't help until there is sample data to test against

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tiagofbmm
Influencer

Can you show us one sample line of your table and tell us exactly what you want to extract please?

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