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regular expression for multi lineevent

darksky21
Path Finder

Hi i have an event

Filename : 1.htm
Content Type : text/html; charset=utf-8

how can i extract the (1.htm only)
i tried ending the string with space but the regex still give me (1.htm Content Type : text/html; charset=utf-8)

sorry new to regex

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kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

Hi

... | rex  "(?m)Filename\s+:\s+(?<file_name)[^\r\n]+)"

Should work. If you're happy, then you can put it in props.conf to make it more permanent;

[your_sourcetype]
EXTRACT-blah =  (?m)Filename\s+:\s+(?<file_name)[^\r\n]+)

Ayn
Legend

...well what's the regex you're using?

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