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Regex help: Colon space and comma as key-value pair

koshyk
Super Champion

I'm trying to figure out better way of doing regex for a data like below

Protocol: TCP, SrcIP: 1.2.3.4, OriginalClientIP: ::, DstIP: 5.6.7.8, SrcPort: 1234, DstPort: 678, TCPFlags: 0x0, DE: some engine (6xxxxxe-a010-11e7-b61b-xxxxxxx), Policy: my-home-policy, ConnectType: End, AccessControlRuleName: AB-CD-EFG, AccessControlRuleAction: Allow, Prefilter Policy: AB-CD-EFG, UserName: User A, InitiatorPackets: 4, ResponderPackets: 2, InitiatorBytes: 288, ResponderBytes: 148, NAPPolicy: AB-CD-EFG-Analysis-Policy, DNSResponseType: No Error, Sinkhole: Unknown, URLCategory: Unknown, URLReputation: Highly Risky

I was looking to split this into key-value pairs, so it becomes

Protocol=TCP
OriginalClientIP="" 
UserName="User A"

So the key-value split is :\s and .* until it finds a comma.

(?<key>\w+):\s+(?<value>.*?)(\,|$)

Above regex works in regex101, but not in transforms.conf . Or put in more precisely, the value is not getting assigned to the key

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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

What exactly does your transforms.conf look like?

Should be something like:

[<stanzaname here>]
REGEX = (\w+):\s+([^,]*)(?:,|$)
FORMAT = $1::$2

And why not simply use:

DELIMS = ",", ":"

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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

What exactly does your transforms.conf look like?

Should be something like:

[<stanzaname here>]
REGEX = (\w+):\s+([^,]*)(?:,|$)
FORMAT = $1::$2

And why not simply use:

DELIMS = ",", ":"

koshyk
Super Champion

DELIMS did the trick. thanks for the idea

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koshyk
Super Champion

thanks for your DELIMS suggestion. I will try that out

(The transforms looks like what you mentiond. I have seen in other posts that we might need to put double quotes over FORMAT. so something like FORMAT = "$1": $2 . I will try both of them anyway.

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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

Looking at the transforms.conf documentation, it should be just FORMAT=$1::$2.

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