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help with a REGEX

extreme1
New Member

I need help with a REGEX that needs to extract just fourth field in a line and nothing else.
The event looks like this:
Switch : 800471-00-04 1215G-04161 xxxxx xxxxx xxxx ........

Al I need is the "1215G-04161" portion of that line Can someone give me a quick regex for that?

Thanks!

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eashwar
Communicator

if you want the field for all events which start with the word Switch

EXTRACT-field4= (?i)Switch\s+:\s+\S+\s+(?P<4field>\S+-\S+)

eashwar
Communicator

instead of 4field replace your own name! which you like to give

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eashwar
Communicator

index=main sourcetype="tcp-raw" | rex "(?i)Switch\s+:\s+\S+\s+(?P<4field>\S+-\S+)"

try this bro!!
consider voting if the answers helped you!!
thanks in advance!!
happy splunking,

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extreme1
New Member

Thanks. So what would the actual search look like?
==> index=main sourcetype="tcp-raw" | rex ????

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Assuming each field is a block of non-spaces, and assuming each field is separated by spaces, you can do this:

^(\S+\s+){3}(?<field4>\S+)
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