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regex to remove first occuring numeric values with coma

DataOrg
Builder

I want to remove the numeric value and comma which is occurring on the first line beginning

1,Woolworths appoints new chief executive
2,Retailer Woolworths has appointed Roy Bagattini as its new group chief executive officer (CEO), with former chief Ian Moir set to step down on 16 February.
123,Walmart is joining Albertsons and Kroger

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nickhills
Ultra Champion

Hi @premranjithj

Try something like this:

your search...|rex field=_raw "^\d+\,(?P<text>.+)$"

If that original string is already extracted to another field, replace _raw with your fieldname.

Let me know if that works!
https://regex101.com/r/W7Ea2p/1

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi @premranjithj

Try this

| makeresults 
| eval string="1,Woolworths appoints new chief executive#
2,Retailer Woolworths has appointed Roy Bagattini as its new group chief executive officer (CEO), with former chief Ian Moir set to step down on 16 February.#
123,Walmart is joining Albertsons and Kroger" 
| makemv delim="#" string 
| mvexpand string 
| eval temp=split(string,",") 
| eval result=mvindex(temp,1) |table result

jawaharas
Motivator

Where does the '#' comes from?

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vnravikumar
Champion

For creating dummy event I had added # in the text to break

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DataOrg
Builder

@vnravikumar thanks it worked

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nickhills
Ultra Champion

Hi @premranjithj

Try something like this:

your search...|rex field=_raw "^\d+\,(?P<text>.+)$"

If that original string is already extracted to another field, replace _raw with your fieldname.

Let me know if that works!
https://regex101.com/r/W7Ea2p/1

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!

DataOrg
Builder

@nickhillscpl cool ! worked , thanks

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