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regex to extract field

numeroinconnu12
Path Finder

Hello,

This is my character string user=YHYIFLP@intra.bcg.local i want to display just YHYIFLP, i use
| eval user=trim(user, "@intra.bcg.local") he doesn't work verry well. it's possible to use regex?

Thanks.

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javiergn
Super Champion

Simplest regex you can use could be this:

| rex field=user "^(?<justUser>[^\@]+)"

Which will extract just the user from the field user into a new field named justUser.

A more accurate and faster regex would be something like https://www.regextester.com/19

Hope that helps,
J

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numeroinconnu12
Path Finder

Thanks you all,
it works

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Try this

| makeresults 
| eval user="YHYIFLP@intra.bcg.local" 
| rex field=user "(?P<user>^[^@]+)"

or

| makeresults 
| eval user="YHYIFLP@intra.bcg.local", result = mvindex(split(user,"@"),0)
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jpolvino
Builder

Here is one way to do it

| makeresults 
| eval user="YHYIFLP@intra.bcg.local" 
| rex field=user "(?<username>[^@]+)@.*"
| table user username
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javiergn
Super Champion

Simplest regex you can use could be this:

| rex field=user "^(?<justUser>[^\@]+)"

Which will extract just the user from the field user into a new field named justUser.

A more accurate and faster regex would be something like https://www.regextester.com/19

Hope that helps,
J

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