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Regex : how to combine lookahead for following purpose?

axl88
Communicator

I am trying to clean log files to categorize them in Splunk, so my question is:

(?i)^(?:[^ ]* ){8} ((?P.+) ((?=\d{8}\d{8}\d{10}.)|(?=\d{8}.?))

bold area needs to be combined like if/else,[it selects good before bold lines]

I want it to STOP just before just-8 digits and dot (dddddddd.) OR 8digit_8digit_10digits (8xd_8xd_10xd.)

my task is to get rid of all unique numbers on log file that i can categorize it better.

please help,

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axl88
Communicator
(?=\d{8}(?:_\d{8}_\d{10})?\.?) 

this satisfies my conditions above. I just need little more to add this personally.

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theunf
Communicator

My client needs to index MQ messages that have a variable payload from 1000 to 450k characters 😉

Does the transforms´ lookahead supports an unlimited value, like 0 or -1 ?

axl88
Communicator
(?=\d{8}(?:_\d{8}_\d{10})?\.?) 

this satisfies my conditions above. I just need little more to add this personally.

axl88
Communicator

(?=\d{8}(?:\d{8}\d{10})?.) this satisfies my conditions above. I just need little more to add this personally.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Okay, something like this?

(?i)Message:\s*(?<message>.*?)\s*[0-9_.]{8,}
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axl88
Communicator

numbers could be at any place. @martin

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Are you possibly looking for something like this?

(?i)Message:\s*(?<message>.*?)\s*[0-9_.]*$
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axl88
Communicator

input of first two lines , would be those two line outputs. Like I said, I m trying to generalize log messages via Regex to have something to monitor overall at the end.

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axl88
Communicator

Input:
Timestamp: 2/26/2014 4:00:42 PM SN #7 Message: ServerXYZ: AppXYZ failed to grab activity code for response 12345678. Timestamp: 2/26/2014 3:37:42 PM SN #31 Message: Error copying folders, the following exception was thrown IOException: The process cannot access the file 12345678_12345678_1234567890'
Output: should refer to
AppXYZ failed to grab activity code for response
Error copying folders, the following exception was thrown IOException: The process cannot access the file
I desire no unique number fields,I can do some stats like what type of error I have on my site.

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

It is not clear what you're trying to do.

The fieldname will not be variable. You might be better off with sed.
Can you post some actual examples?

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