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Help with regex

hank72
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Hi community. 

Some searches have:
index="my_index"
index=my_index

I want to extract a new field named user_index but cannot figure out the regex capture group that may or may not contain quotes around the index name.

 

 

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hank72
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I figured it out.

index=(\"|)(?P<user_index>[^ "]+)

 

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hank72
Path Finder

I figured it out.

index=(\"|)(?P<user_index>[^ "]+)

 

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