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How to extract the user and move it to a field in Splunk?

LearningGuy
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How to extract the following user and move it to a field in Splunk?
message: xad="/home/andy"
message: xad="/home/george"
message: xad="/home/cindy"
and a lot more..
I would like to get an output as follows.    Because of the quote " before /home, Splunk rejected my regex. Please help. Thanks
user  
====    
andy
george
cindy

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yuanliu
SplunkTrust
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You obviously has a field named xad.  From this, no need for rex.

| eval user = mvindex(split(xad, "/"), 1)
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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I think @yuanliu meant

| eval user = mvindex(split(xad, "/"), 2)

Having said that, can you share the failed rex and/or the full events (anonymised, of course) in a code block </> to preserve the format of the event?

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