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Need help to create a regular expression

Mrig342
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Hi All,

I am trying to create a regular expression to extract a value from a given log. Below is the log:

2021-10-05 07:25:42.986, DATUM2="3095", STATUS="2", REQUEST_TYPE="103", PRIORITY="300", OWNER="490070", COUNT(1)="2"

Here I want to extract value of "COUNT(1)" and created the regular expression (?ms)COUNT\(1\)\=\"(?P<COUNT(1)>\d+)\"

But with this expression I am not able to get the field name as "COUNT(1)" which is my requirement.

Please help modify my expression to get the desired output.

 

Thank you very much.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| makeresults
| eval _raw="2021-10-05 07:25:42.986, DATUM2=\"3095\", STATUS=\"2\", REQUEST_TYPE=\"103\", PRIORITY=\"300\", OWNER=\"490070\", COUNT(1)=\"2\""
| rex "(?ms)COUNT\(1\)\=\"(?P<COUNT_1>\d+)\""
| rename COUNT_1 as "COUNT(1)"

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| makeresults
| eval _raw="2021-10-05 07:25:42.986, DATUM2=\"3095\", STATUS=\"2\", REQUEST_TYPE=\"103\", PRIORITY=\"300\", OWNER=\"490070\", COUNT(1)=\"2\""
| rex "(?ms)COUNT\(1\)\=\"(?P<COUNT_1>\d+)\""
| rename COUNT_1 as "COUNT(1)"

Mrig342
Contributor

Thank you so much ITWhisperer..!!

Your solution is perfect for my requirement. I wonder why it didn't hit my mind.. Haha..

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2pattern.html#SEC16https://www.regular-expressions.info/na...

In PCRE2, a capture group can be named in one of three ways: (?<name>...) or (?'name'...) as in Perl, or (?P<name>...) as in Python. Names may be up to 32 code units long. When PCRE2_UTF is not set, they may contain only ASCII alphanumeric characters and underscores, but must start with a non-digit. When PCRE2_UTF is set, the syntax of group names is extended to allow any Unicode letter or Unicode decimal digit. In other words, group names must match one of these patterns:

  ^[_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\z   when PCRE2_UTF is not set
  ^[_\p{L}][_\p{L}\p{Nd}]*\z  when PCRE2_UTF is set

 In other words, you can't directly capture as group named "count(1)". You might capture with another name and rename the field later.

Mrig342
Contributor

Thank you very much PickleRick..!!

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