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Why am I unable to extract a field from my logs with rex using my current regular expression?

mitcanmit
Explorer

In my logs, I have the below part and I want to extract success

{\"state\":\"success\",

How do I formulate it with rex? I know that I should escape the backslashes and quotes but adding a \ does not do the trick. This is what I have tried:

| rex "\\\"state\\\":\\\"(?<state>\w*)\\\""
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Give this a try as well

your base search | rex   "(\\\)*\"state(\\\)*\":(\\\)*\"(?<state>\w*)(\\\)*\""

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Give this a try as well

your base search | rex   "(\\\)*\"state(\\\)*\":(\\\)*\"(?<state>\w*)(\\\)*\""

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Your regex string worked perfectly on regex101.com, but sometimes Splunk gets confused by quotation marks within strings. Try this alternative:

"\\\x22state\\\x22:\\\x22(?<state>\w*)\\\x22"
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