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How to use regex determine whether a field is an IP address

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I extracted a field named "apche_zhuji_sip", but the content is not accurate, some are not IP, how do I use regular expressions to filter non-IP contentalt text

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DalJeanis
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It will be something like this

(your extract)
| regex apche_zhuji_sip="^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$" 

That's the basic, simple version that makes sure the IP has 1-3 numeric digits. You could also do a more complicated version that limits the nodes to 001-255...

| regex apche_zhuji_sip="(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3} (?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)"

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DalJeanis
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It will be something like this

(your extract)
| regex apche_zhuji_sip="^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$" 

That's the basic, simple version that makes sure the IP has 1-3 numeric digits. You could also do a more complicated version that limits the nodes to 001-255...

| regex apche_zhuji_sip="(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3} (?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)"
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