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How to write the regex to split a single event to multiple events after a particular number of characters in a string?

jyothishtj
New Member

Hi,

I am trying to split an event to multiple events. I want to split after 12th character. The string contains space as well.
E.g,

aaaaa bbb aa aaaaa bcb aa accaa bbb aa.................................

I want to get aaaaa bbb aa as one event. aaaaa bcb aa as another event and so on

I tried with BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE and LINE_BREAKER parameters with different regular expressions, but not working. I gave SHOULD_LINEMERGE as false. Please help to create a way to achieve this.

Thanks,
Jyo

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1 Solution

dart
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Does:

LINE_BREAKER = .{12}()
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false

Work?

Or possibly:

TRUNCATE=12

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songhyunho
New Member

What about this?

^.{12}\s(?P.{12})

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jyothishtj
New Member

I tried this , but not working

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songhyunho
New Member

Sorry. Use this.

|rex field = _raw "^(?P<field1>.{12})\s(?P<field2>.{12})"
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songhyunho
New Member

I'm sorry. I forgot the code sample setting.

|rex field = _raw "^.{12}\s(?P<newfield>.{12})"
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dart
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Does:

LINE_BREAKER = .{12}()
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false

Work?

Or possibly:

TRUNCATE=12

jyothishtj
New Member

I tried the first option. It is working. But the truncate is giving only the first 12 characters as a single event

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