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help to make regex

ckals46
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hello all!

I have a sentense of raw data so I want to extract only one field.

raw data's example :

A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,1234567891011,K,L,M,N
A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,1234567891011,K,L,M,N
A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,1234567891011,K,L,M,N
A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,1234567891011,K,L,M,N

after example :

A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,*,K,L,M,N
A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,*,K,L,M,N
A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,*,K,L,M,N
A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,*,K,L,M,N

I want to change 12th field into a '*'

Please help me. Give me make it 😐

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

You can try like this

| gentimes start=-1 | eval temp="A,B,C,D,E,F,1234567891011,G,H,I,J,1234567891011,K,L,M,N" | table temp | rename temp as _raw | rex mode=sed "s/^(([^,]*,){11})([^,]*)/\1*/"
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