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mdeterville
Path Finder

How do i extract everything after the 3rd / from the left in:

WinNT://PSAD/johndoe

The output should be "johndoe"

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

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johnhuang
Motivator

Either of these should work:

^.*\/(?<user_id>.*)

^[^\/]*\/\/[^\/]*\/(?<user_id>.*)

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johnhuang
Motivator

Either of these should work:

^.*\/(?<user_id>.*)

^[^\/]*\/\/[^\/]*\/(?<user_id>.*)

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