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How to rex multiple lines

garujoey
Engager

Hi there,

I am a newbie in Splunk and trying to do some search using the rex.

The log body is like:

blah blah
Dest : aaa
blah blah
Dest: bbb
blah blah
Dest: ccc

I searched online and used some command like ' rex field=_raw "(?s)Dest : (?.*)" ' or (?smi), but it wasn't what I wanted.

I need the output to only get the table like
aaa
bbb
ccc

Is there any way to do that?

Thank you very much in advance!
:)

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1 Solution

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

| rex max_match=0 "(?ms)\s+Dest:\s+(?<Dest>\S+)"
| stats values(Dest) AS Dests

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davey1985
Explorer

To get it into a table on its own it would be:

| rex "Dest:\s+(?<Data>.*)"
| table Data
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jimodonald
Contributor

Try this:

|  rex field=_raw "Dest\s*:\s(?P<myfield>.*)"
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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

| rex max_match=0 "(?ms)\s+Dest:\s+(?<Dest>\S+)"
| stats values(Dest) AS Dests

davey1985
Explorer

+1 i misinterpretted. max_match=0 would get multiple results

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garujoey
Engager

Thanks woodcock, I used "| rex max_match=0 field=_raw "(?)Dest : (?.*)" | table path" in the end, but your suggestion to use "max_match=0" really helps!

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

That is the whole point, is it not?

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