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rex word extraction?

rakesh_498115
Motivator

How can i write a regular expression to extract string starting with S and ends with 'E'.

I have used like this.

rex "^S(?<LOC>[.]*)E$"

, but not working ??

can you pls help

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Your carrot indicates that you want to capture from the beginning of the line. You want to search within the text so try:

| rex field=_raw "S(?<LOC>\w*)E"

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arihant16cse
Path Finder

| makeresults | eval aa="asssd sade bvc sfge" | eval bb=split(aa," ") *use this * alt text

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nasamajh09
New Member

What if I have to capture somewhere in the middle of the line , not from the begining , how rex can be used here .Please suggest

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Your carrot indicates that you want to capture from the beginning of the line. You want to search within the text so try:

| rex field=_raw "S(?<LOC>\w*)E"

alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You are most welcome, please mark the answer as accepted if we have answered your question. Thanks!

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rakesh_498115
Motivator

Thank you alacercogitatus

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Like This: | rex field=_raw "(?<LOC>S\w*E)"

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Ayn
Legend

Just put them inside the matching group instead of outside.

rakesh_498115
Motivator

how can include both S and E as well in the word extraction ??

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