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How to extract string from a position until the end of line?

mdzmuran
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I have lines like this:

[2011/02/11@10:33:13.978+0100] P-18679      T-0     I Usr     2: (49)    SYSTEM ERROR: Memory violation.

How can I extract the string beginning with "Memory viol" till the end of line? The string is one line only, but may be much longer with any characters.

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DalJeanis
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Your regex will look like this

| rex field=_raw "(?<myfield>Memory viol.*)$"

or you might prefer

| rex field=_raw "SYSTEM ERROR:\s+(?<myfield>.*)$"

Both of these assume that there will never be any fields after the system error. The $ at the end is a regex anchor for "the end of the field we are searching"

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DalJeanis
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Your regex will look like this

| rex field=_raw "(?<myfield>Memory viol.*)$"

or you might prefer

| rex field=_raw "SYSTEM ERROR:\s+(?<myfield>.*)$"

Both of these assume that there will never be any fields after the system error. The $ at the end is a regex anchor for "the end of the field we are searching"

mdzmuran
Observer

Thanks. It works.

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