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What Is Purpose Of Leading P Argument In Field Extraction Regex?

psmith3
Engager

When extracting a field using a regex, what does the P argument do (the P character between the question mark and the field name)? I have seen examples with and without this argument, but I don't see any obvious difference in the results. For example:
(?i) Finished (?P.+)
versus
(?i) Finished (?.+)

I looked in the Splunk manual and on the Answers site but couldn't find any description of this argument. Apologies if I'm missing something obvious.

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lguinn2
Legend

The P was part of the syntax when Python first introduced the idea of naming a capture in regular expressions. However, the P is not part of the syntax in some other flavors of regular expressions, most notably Microsoft .NET.

Splunk supports the syntax both ways.

psmith3
Engager

Great - thanks for the quick response!

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