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How to extract the substring from a string

febbi
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I want to extract the substring: "xenmobile" from string:  "update task to xenmobile-2021-11-08-19-created completed!", how can I get that?

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| makeresults
| eval foo = "update task to xenmobile-2021-11-08-19-created completed!"
| rex field=foo "update task to (?<bar>[^-]+)"

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| replace "xenmobile" WITH "" IN field
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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| makeresults
| eval foo = "update task to xenmobile-2021-11-08-19-created completed!"
| rex field=foo "update task to (?<bar>[^-]+)"
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