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Remove colons from a number

dsmeerkat
Explorer

I'm looking to get rid of the numbers and colon before the larger one in the middle, and after

I have

1:31705:1
1:19439:8
1:19438:13

What I would like is

31705
19439
19438

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xpac
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this:

| rex field=yourfield "^[^:]+:(?<yourfield>[^:]+):"

Hope that helps - if it does I'd be happy if you would upvote/accept this answer, so others could profit from it. 🙂

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xpac
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this:

| rex field=yourfield "^[^:]+:(?<yourfield>[^:]+):"

Hope that helps - if it does I'd be happy if you would upvote/accept this answer, so others could profit from it. 🙂

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