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regular expression to extract lines of text between two different texts

satya671
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suppose i had data like below field="_raw"

afadfadfadf

afadsfagafg

adfafafa

string1 .........

afjal;dkfhao ilhaf

ajkf;haldghag;lakg

akuhfajkdhfalkfha;

auhaghkajdgakg

jkalfagafg

string2.........

afdasdgadfas

**bleep**adgafgafgaf

agfgertfergreg

And i want to extract the data in between string1 and string2

 

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venkatasri
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @satya671 

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="afadfadfadf
afadsfagafg

adfafafa

string1 .........

afjal;dkfhao ilhaf

ajkf;haldghag;lakg

akuhfajkdhfalkfha;

auhaghkajdgakg

jkalfagafg

string2.........

afdasdgadfas" 
| rex "string1(?<extracted>(.|\n)*?)string2" 
| table extracted

 

You could try this.

 

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venkatasri
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @satya671 

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="afadfadfadf
afadsfagafg

adfafafa

string1 .........

afjal;dkfhao ilhaf

ajkf;haldghag;lakg

akuhfajkdhfalkfha;

auhaghkajdgakg

jkalfagafg

string2.........

afdasdgadfas" 
| rex "string1(?<extracted>(.|\n)*?)string2" 
| table extracted

 

You could try this.

 

satya671
Explorer

Thanks @venkatasri  it's working as expected :slightly_smiling_face:

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