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rex mode sed remove beginning of a string

ecanmaster
Explorer

I have a user field that contains first domain and then followed by user name: Domain\user.name
I want to remove the domain name.
SO everything till \ needs to be removed, so you would only see:
user.name

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

Try this!

|rex field=your_field mode=sed "s/.*\\\\//g"

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

Try this!

|rex field=your_field mode=sed "s/.*\\\\//g"

kimikoyan
Explorer

Great answer, solved my problem. Thank you very much for your sharing.

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