How would I go about parsing out/extracting the field data for the following log format? "fieldname1":"fieldvalue1","timestamp":"2017-02-07 14:19:54.166","ip_address":"3.3.3.3","user_id":"USER1" "fieldname1":"fieldvalue1","timestamp":"2017-02-07 14:19:52.395","fieldname2":"fieldvalue2","user_id":"USER2" "fieldname1":"fieldvalue1","timestamp":"2017-02-07 14:19:50.316","ip_address":"8.8.8.8","fieldname2":"fieldvalue2" Not all lines of logs will contain all the same fields, but field names are constant. The fields are always comma separated and then in "field":"value" pairs. Currently, I have separate field extractions for each interesting field such as: \"fieldname1\":\"(?P[a-zA-z]*) Is this the right way to do this or is there an easier or more proper method? ... View more