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On the limit of delimiter in field extracter

yutaka1005
Builder

I indexed some logs that have values are separated by commas, and I attempted to extract fields using delimiter, but the following error was output.

regular expression is too large

Does the delimiter extraction have limit values?
I hope someone can tell me.

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try shortening all the field names in the regex

Ex:

 (?<my_long_field_name>regextoextract)

Becomes

 (?<a>regextoextract)

Do that for all your field names, then rename them in search. I believe you’re hitting a validation character limit of 8096.

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yutaka1005
Builder

Thank youf for answer!

8096 means 8096 bytes?
And is it limit of splunk regex?

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p_gurav
Champion

Can you give sample data? How many columns you are extracting?
Try extracting with transforms.conf, refer below doc:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Knowledge/Configureadvancedextractionswithfieldtra...

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yutaka1005
Builder

Thank you for comment.

I'm sorry, I can't give you sample data,but It has over 200 columns.

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