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How to replace non-alphanumeric characters in field

oraclebox
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I have field name transport_route_id may contains non-alphanumeric characters but I want to remove all of them.
Does any know how can I remove them using | rex command?

This part seem cause error.
| field=transport_route_id mode=sed rex "[0-0a-zA-Z]"

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kristian_kolb
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The order of the options in the rex command is wrong, and the regular expression has to be in a sed script. This is more correct:

...| rex field=transport_route_id mode=sed "s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g"

See more in the docs.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Rex

EDIT: forgot to link to docs...

/K

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kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

The order of the options in the rex command is wrong, and the regular expression has to be in a sed script. This is more correct:

...| rex field=transport_route_id mode=sed "s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g"

See more in the docs.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Rex

EDIT: forgot to link to docs...

/K

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