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How to extract username from my data?

thambisetty_bal
Path Finder

Hi Splunkers,

I have been struggling to extract user name from below values of user.

user
--------
user1@sa.com
sab\user2
user3

OUTPUT
------------
user1
user2
user3

kindly help me out..

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1 Solution

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Give this a try. (Runanywhere sample search, first line is just to generate sample data).

| gentimes start=-1 | eval user="user1@sa.com sab\user2 user3" | table user | makemv user | mvexpand user 
| rex field=user "(?<cleanedUser>\w+)(\@|$)"

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Give this a try. (Runanywhere sample search, first line is just to generate sample data).

| gentimes start=-1 | eval user="user1@sa.com sab\user2 user3" | table user | makemv user | mvexpand user 
| rex field=user "(?<cleanedUser>\w+)(\@|$)"
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thambisetty_bal
Path Finder

you are amazing @somesoni2

please explain regex Sir.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

It's capturing a full work (\w+) till you encounter a @ symbol or end of value ($). backward slash is word terminator so it works for 2nd example value as well.

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