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How to regex match?

kc_prane
Communicator

 Hi,

This is a raw log  Job=[IN-SNMMIS-DLY]], 

I am trying to build regex just the words " IN-SNMMIS-DLY]" 

and ignore the parenthesis  

 

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

 

| rex "Job=\[(?<job>[^\]]+)\]"

 

 

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kc_prane
Communicator

Thankyou@ITWhisperer

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yuanliu
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I think @ITWhisperer pressed Enter before complete typing. (This happened to me today, too. Something on the forum interface might be off.)  Assuming the field Job is already extracted, a usable regex would be "^\[.+\]$".  To use in rex command:

|rex field=Job "^\[(?<Job_no_bracket>.+)\]$"

If Job is not extracted and you are only interested in the part inside brackets,

| rex "=\[(?<Job_no_bracket>.+)\]$"

This last one only works if there's nothing after "Job=[IN-SNMMIS-DLY]]" in _raw.

 

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kc_prane
Communicator

Thanks a lot, @Yuanilu that regex worked for me.

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