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How to create regex to find source path that contains spaces?

sarit_s
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Hello

I have sources that contain white spaces and I wand to count them

What is the regex to find all the sources with spaces ?

 

Thanks

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ITWhisperer
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| regex source="\s"

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gcusello
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Hi @sarit_s ,

to help you, it's manadatory a sample of your logs, anyway, you can use the other chars to extract a regex.

So, if you want to extract the folder from this log:

2023-08-02 host1 11.11.11 10.2.34.12 path="C:\Program Files\folder 1\my_file.docx",

you could try something like this:

| rex "path\=\".*\\(?<folder>[^\\]+)\\\w+\.\w+\""

that you can test at https://regex101.com/r/i6V2W4/1

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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sarit_s
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Hello

Thanks for your reply

this is an example of my path:

C:\Projects\API Managment Logging\Logs\*.txt

 

Also, the regex you attached is invalid 😞

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sarit_s
Communicator

also , maybe I wasn't clear enough

I want to count all the hosts that have sources with spaces

I don't want to extract the folder, I just need to know how many sources with white space I have

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gcusello
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Hi @sarit_s ,

good for you, see next time!

Ciao and happy splunking

Giuseppe

P.S.: Karma Points are appreciated by all the contributors 😉

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| regex source="\s"
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