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how to use rex for non-alphanumeric fields?

ewise1
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Hi,

I am trying to use rex function to extract "/" from my data which lookslike:

Database User [1] : "/"

how should I do this to only get / out of rex extraction?

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somesoni2
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Try like this

...| rex  "Database User \[\d+\] \: \"(?<DBUserName>[^\"]+)"

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somesoni2
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Try like this

...| rex  "Database User \[\d+\] \: \"(?<DBUserName>[^\"]+)"
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