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Trim string after second exclamation mark

mandlikarbaaz
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Hi,
I have a field called SESSION_ID which has a value "0cdWYCu982HhTjoSYMUgnrCIW8c1apbU!1706637738!1581997108157"
I want to trim or modify the string from the second exclamation to the last to make it look like this "0cdWYCu982HhTjoSYMUgnrCIW8c1apbU!1706637738"
Can someone please help me out!

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vnravikumar
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Hi

Try this

| makeresults 
| eval SESSION_ID ="0cdWYCu982HhTjoSYMUgnrCIW8c1apbU!1706637738!1581997108157" 
| eval SESSION_ID=replace(SESSION_ID,"(![^!]+)$","")
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nickhills
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Try:

|rex field=SESSION_ID "(?P<NEW_SESSION_ID>[^!]+![^!]+)"

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