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help in a regular expression extraction

royimad
Builder

I have a text that contains anything followed by a word that start with either
XPOS, POS and HF and ended by -

Example:
ABC XPOS2024 -
DEF POS340903 -
GHI HF3948329 -
...

How to extract XPOS2024 , POS340903 , HF3948329 using regular expression?

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dishasaxena
Path Finder

You may try below regex as well:
"(?:)[^ ]+ +(?P(XPOS|POS|HF)[^ ]+) +-"

If it does not work please let me know.

Regards,
Disha

royimad
Builder

Thanks man

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

try this on the search : (and remove the underscored, they are here to trick the html formatting)


* | rex "(?<myfield>(XPOS|POS|HF)\d+)" | table myfield

royimad
Builder

It's working great thank you guys

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Thanks Åynm I had a missing parenthesis.

And if the characters after are not always digits, disha's regex is perfect.

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Ayn
Legend

* | rex "(?<myfield>(XPOS|POS|HF)\d+)" | table myfield

royimad
Builder

it seems that this isn't working

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royimad
Builder

I'm receiving this error

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royimad
Builder

Error in 'rex' command: Encountered the following error while compiling the regex '?(XPOS|POS|HF)\d+)': Regex: nothing to repeat

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