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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?

1 Solution

Solution

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

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| replace "xenmobile" WITH "" IN field

Solution

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

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