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need help in extracting a substring from a string

owie6466
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hello splunkers! new to splunk and i am needing to extract a word from a message field.

this is the message

The Cluster Service service entered the running state.

i want to extract "running state" and use it to indicate a status of a server.

thank you!

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codebuilder
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Pipe your existing search to erex, give the field a name and provide an example.

...| erex ServiceState examples="running state"

When your search completes use the job inspector to find the regex that Splunk used to find your match.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/SearchReference/Erex

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codebuilder
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Pipe your existing search to erex, give the field a name and provide an example.

...| erex ServiceState examples="running state"

When your search completes use the job inspector to find the regex that Splunk used to find your match.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/SearchReference/Erex

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owie6466
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thanks! 🙂

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owie6466
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this worked great!!!!!!

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codebuilder
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Glad it worked for you! erex is a hidden gem 🙂

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