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Why am I not able to use the regular expression value of my main search in subsearch rex?

saransakthi83
New Member

I tried to use the value of main search regex in subsearch rex .

Main search |rex "(?regular expression)"|append [search |rex "(?$val)"]
Main search |rex "(?regular expression)"|append [search |rex "(?regular expression)"]|search val=va1

both are not working. Please suggest what to do.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You do this with the map command like this:

search to set val | rex "(?<val>RegExHere)" | map search="search $val"

Or reverse your logic like this:

search [search to set val | rex "(?<val>RegExHere)" | return $val]
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

You can't pass value from outer search to subsearch. What is your requirement here (samples/current query/expected output)?

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