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Rex field to extract dot net module

totaro
Explorer

Hi i currently have the following line in my search that search for system.net.webclient:

|rex max_match=0 "(?<module>(system.net.webclient))"

May i know how do i amend this to search for any syntax that match system.xxx.xxx so it work for all the module?

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

check this

| makeresults 
| eval test= "system.com.testclient" 
| rex field=test max_match=0 "(?<module>(system\.\w+\.\w+))"

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try |rex max_match=0 "(?<module>system\.[^\.]+\.\S+)".

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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totaro
Explorer

This actually works better if the data was more organize; sadly my data was not and it capture too many noise

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

check this

| makeresults 
| eval test= "system.com.testclient" 
| rex field=test max_match=0 "(?<module>(system\.\w+\.\w+))"
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