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Sort values of a field with double digit

bleung93
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How do I sort this single field properly? I already tried | sort - field_name. I tried creating a rex and then sorting that field, but no changes.

field_name

value_1_asdfasdfasdf
value_10_asdfasdfasdf
Value_11_asdfasdfasdf
Value_12_asdfasdfasdf
value_2_asdfasdfasdf
value_3_asdfasdfasdf
value_4_asdfasdfasdf
value_5_asdfasdfasdf
value_6_asdfasdfasdf
value_7_asdfasdfasdf
value_8_asdfasdfasdf
value_9_asdfasdfasdf

I want the results as follows

value_1_asdfasdfasdf
value_2_asdfasdfasdf
value_3_asdfasdfasdf
value_4_asdfasdfasdf
value_5_asdfasdfasdf
value_6_asdfasdfasdf
value_7_asdfasdfasdf
value_8_asdfasdfasdf
value_9_asdfasdfasdf
value_10_asdfasdfasdf
value_11_asdfasdfasdf
value_12_asdfasdfasdf

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linu1988
Champion

Try to extract all the digits from the data and then sort it.

....|rex field="field_name" "_(?P<dummy>[\d]+)_"|table field_name,dummy|sort +dummy

OR

....|eval dummy=replace(field_name,"\D","")|table fild_name,dummy|sort dummy

Thanks

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linu1988
Champion

Try to extract all the digits from the data and then sort it.

....|rex field="field_name" "_(?P<dummy>[\d]+)_"|table field_name,dummy|sort +dummy

OR

....|eval dummy=replace(field_name,"\D","")|table fild_name,dummy|sort dummy

Thanks

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bleung93
Path Finder

Oh, extract just the numbers.... okay I will test this soon and get back. Probably will work.

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