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Rex command issue in splunk views

iamniks
Explorer

Hi,

i am using the below search command in a splunk view as given below.

index=re sourcetype="clearcase_Log" "Trouble opening VOB database" earliest=-7d |rex field=_raw ".vbstore/(?.).vbs" |
stats count as "ERROR INSTANCES" by vob

is causing trouble as we have to place search query inside tags. I tried to use < and > for < and > respectively which failed too. Can you please help me with the below error?

***Error in 'rex' command: Encountered the following error while compiling the regex '.*vbstore/(?
.
).vbs': Regex: unrecognized character after (? or (?-
****

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Ayn
Legend

When you're enclosing the tags that are causing you trouble in an XML document, they are interpreted as part of the XML data rather than as part of the rex command. To specify that these tags are not referring to the XML structure, use the special escaping sequence "<![CDATA[" at the beginning of your string and its corresponding end sequence "]]>" at the end. Example here: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/30157/inputlookup-in-view-with-rex

Ayn
Legend

Awesome. Could you please mark my answer as accepted? Thanks!

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iamniks
Explorer

This works now.. grt thank you . I had left an extra special char.

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Ayn
Legend

Also your extraction probably doesn't extract what you want. You likely want .vbstore/(?<vob>.+?)\.vbs

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Ayn
Legend

Are you using a space after the ( character? You shouldn't, it's incorrect syntax and would cause Splunk to throw that error.

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iamniks
Explorer

doesnt work for CDATA also

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iamniks
Explorer

Error in 'rex' command: Encountered the following error while compiling the regex '.vbstore/(? .).vbs': Regex: unrecognized character after (? or (?-**

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iamniks
Explorer

i mean i tried to use (without spaces)
"& l t ;" for < and "& g t ;" for > but failed

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