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What regular expression should I use to eliminate a character in the field value?

kiran331
Builder

Hi

What Regex do I have to use to eliminate a character in the field value?

eg:
G0:1K:BF:04:12:2C
expected: G01KBF04122C

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sundareshr
Legend

Replace should do it as well

| eval newfield=replace(oldfield, ":", "")

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sundareshr
Legend

Replace should do it as well

| eval newfield=replace(oldfield, ":", "")
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schose
Builder

regex should work as descripted. another possibility is to crate/eval a new field

your_search | eval macnew = replace(mac_field, ":","")

Regards,

Andreas

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Please check this

| rex mode=sed "s/\://g"

for learnings,
mode=sed --- to update rex to use sed mode
s/ --- search for
":" ---- escaped ":"
"//" ---- replace it with "empty" string (remove)
/g ----- do this search and replace globally.

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thanks and best regards,
Sekar

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