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kavyatim
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Hi,
i have data in following format
PacketPos[503081044] PosInPacket[ 38] NALlength[11634] NAL[98983] Type[Non IDR slice]FrameType[P] DecodingIndex[32207] PresentationIndex[32211] POC[32262] frame_num[83] Structure[TopField] SPSid[0] PPSid[0] PTS[217794471] DTS[217785462]
how will i extract fields and their values using regex. .

Kindly help me in writing regex for this. . .

Thanking in advance,

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gfuente
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Hello

Try using this command:

... | rex "^\w+(?<PacketPos>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PosInPacket>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<NALlength>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<NAL>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<Type>\[[^\]]+\])\s?\w+(?<FrameType>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<DecodingIndex>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PresentationIndex>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<POC>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<frame_num>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<Structure>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<SPSid>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PPSid>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PTS>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<DTS>\[[^\]]+\])" |...

Hope it helps

Regards

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gfuente
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[hide preview] 49 characters / 6 words
Hello

Try using this command:

... | rex "^\w+(?<PacketPos>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PosInPacket>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<NALlength>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<NAL>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<Type>\[[^\]]+\])\s?\w+(?<FrameType>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<DecodingIndex>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PresentationIndex>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<POC>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<frame_num>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<Structure>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<SPSid>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PPSid>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<PTS>\[[^\]]+\])\s\w+(?<DTS>\[[^\]]+\])" |...

Hope it helps

Regards

kavyatim
Path Finder

yes got it. .thank you very much

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gfuente
Motivator

Hello you just need to move the brackets outside the capturing group like:

\w+\[(?[^\]]+)\]\s

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kavyatim
Path Finder

I mean to say I dont want to extract brackets with values,using above regex I am able to extract values with in brackets. .
how will i extract only values without brackets

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kavyatim
Path Finder

i will i extract without [ ] . ..

for example for field Structure, values are [small],[big],[medium]. ..
how to extract without brackets

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kavyatim
Path Finder

Thank you very much for your answer i am able to extract . . .

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gfuente
Motivator

That regex works for the example you provided. What problem do you have now?

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kavyatim
Path Finder

Tried but not able to make out what is missed

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gfuente
Motivator

Try again, there were missing backslash

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kavyatim
Path Finder

Hi ,

Thank you very for your answer. .
Getting below error ,can you correct the error.
Regex - Cannot find regex reference: ^, in regex: '^w+(?[[^]]+])sw+(?[[^]]+])sw+(?[[^]]+])sw+(?[[^]]+])'

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