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using regex for field extraction

dylanhess
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I am trying to extract the action=* from this field, in this event its add. I've trying extracting through how you would typically extract fields but it doesn't want to capture all the different possible events, action=delete, action=replace etc.    

UPDATE#011class=DATASET#011prof=IMSVS.*#011vol=P1CP02#011dsn=IMSVS.BETALIBA#011member=PYNMU49#011box=HTC-95-000000033771-0094#011action=ADD#011sum=PJXCPAI6 

So I resorted to trying to manually write my own regex (?<=action=).*(?=#) but I cant seem to get the rex command to work or manually add my regex to the filed extraction

rex field=intent (?<=action=).*(?=#) 

I get this error message when using the rex command above.

Error in 'rex' command: The regex '(?<=action=).*(?=#)' does not extract anything. It should specify at least one named group. Format: (?<name>...).

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ITWhisperer
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rex field=intent "action=(?<action>[^#]*)#" 

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ITWhisperer
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rex field=intent "action=(?<action>[^#]*)#" 

dylanhess
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Thank you so much!

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