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Regex help!

kranthi851
New Member

Hi
How can i extract a dn from the following result.

identity:
acd123
cn=abc,ou=..,ou=..,
xyz234
cn=acd,ou=abc,...

I need to extract a new field dn with values starting with cn=.

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sundareshr
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Try this

your base search here | extract pairdelim="," kvdelim="=" | table cn ou 
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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi kranthi851,

try this regex:

 your base search here | rex max_match=0 "cn=(?<myNewField>[^,]+)" | do more here ....

The new field will be called myNewField just change it to what fits your use case.

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

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