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How to extract these fields?

kranthi851
New Member

Hi

How to extract these users using Regex? I need user=eerfe33, nrt123,..

file:_C:\Users\eerfe33\Documents....
file:_C:\Users\nrt123\Downloads....

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This works in a search

... | rex "Users\\(?<user>[^\\]+)" | ...
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This works in a search

... | rex "Users\\(?<user>[^\\]+)" | ...
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sundareshr
Legend

Try this

.... |  rex (Users\\(?<users>[^\\]+)"
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kranthi851
New Member

Thanks for the reply! I'm getting error:

Error in 'rex' command: Encountered the following error while compiling the regex 'Users\(?[^\]+)': Regex: missing terminating ] for character class

Search:

index=... sourcetype=...|rex "(Users\\(?[^\\]+)"

The results are in field

file_path= file:_C:\Users\eerfe33\Documents.... , file:_C:\Users\nrt123\Downloads...., file:_C:\Users\ab_ww22\AppData\
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Each backslash in the rex command must be escaped (doubled). As the command reads now, the closing bracket is escaped and therefore not interpreted as a closing bracket.
If your data consists of multiple file paths in a single field then the rex command should be changed slightly.

rex field=file_path max_match=0 "Users\\(?<user>[^\\]+)"

This will put all user names into a single multivalue field called 'user'. Use the mv commands to extract the individual user names.

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kranthi851
New Member

This is the raw event:

"2016-06-17 11:29:30" timestamp="2016-06-17 11:29:30.227",ID="72", product="dsd", type="Incident", dest="LT", dest_nt="TH", date="2016-06-17 11:29:30.227", actiontime="2016-06-17 11:29:49.0", version="4.9", detid="11E6",  FullName="NT", UserSID="NULL", src="realtime", UID="17", file_name="C:\Program Files\..", file_path="file:_C:\Users\eerfe33\Documents\...", sig="dfg", severity="Severe", category="PA", action="noaction"
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