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What is the regular expression to replace a dash '-' in a string with a period '.'

shivac
New Member

12-000-000-222

for the above IP address, i want to change it to 12.000.000.222. pls help.

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aaraneta_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

@shivac - Looks like you have a few possible solutions to your question. If one of them provided a working solution, please don't forget to click "Accept" below the best answer to resolve this post. If you still need help, please leave a comment. Don’t forget to upvote anything that was helpful too. Thanks!

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

FYI, Options, other than sed are,

....| eval YourIPField=replace(YourIPField,"-",".")

not so good method

...| replace"*-*-*-*" with "*.*.*.*" in YourIPField
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vasanthmss
Motivator

Try this,

your base search .. | rex mode=sed field=<your_field> "s/-/./g"

Sample:

|stats c | eval field="12-000-000-222" | table field | rex mode=sed field=field "s/-/./g"

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cpetterborg
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

the sedcmd syntax is:

s/-/./g

Will that work for you?

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