| search country!="Canada" See also Commands rex search | makeresults count=5 | eval country="Canada" In contrast, the search with search and != in the following example doesn't return any events because all of the events with field City where the field Country is null are excluded. Also, the Country field is displayed, but the values are null. As a result, 5 events are displayed for the City field, even though a Country field was not defined for those events.
This search returns the union of two groups of events: events where the field Country is defined and has a value not equal to "Canada" and events where the field Country is not defined. | makeresults count=5 | eval city="Ontario" | makeresults count=5 | eval Country="Canada" The search with regex and != in the following example creates 5 events with Country="Canada" and 5 events with City="Ontario", and filters on events where Country does not equal "Canada". This example uses a negative lookbehind assertion at the beginning of the expression. If you use != in the context of the regex command, keep this behavior in mind and make sure you want to include null fields in your results.Įxample 1: Keep only search results whose "_raw" field contains IP addresses in the non-routable class A (10.0.0.0/8). For example, this search will not include events that do not define the field Location. You can use a search command with != to filter for events that don't contain a field matching the search string, and for which the field is defined. The search command behaves the opposite way. For example, this search will include events that do not define the field Location. You can use a regex command with != to filter for events that don't have a field value matching the regular expression, or for which the field is null.
If you use regular expressions in conjunction with the regex command, note that != behaves differently for the regex command than for the search command. Use the rex command to either extract fields using regular expression named groups, or replace or substitute characters in a field using sed expressions. Use the regex command to remove results that match or do not match the specified regular expression. The difference between the regex and rex commands See SPL and regular expressions in the Search Manual.Īlthough != is valid within a regex command, NOT is not valid.įor general information about regular expressions, see About Splunk regular expressions in the Knowledge Manager Manual. When you use regular expressions in searches, you need to be aware of how characters such as pipe ( | ) and backslash ( \ ) are handled. The regex command is a distributable streaming command. Declaration The () method is declared as follows. The () method returns a boolean value which depends on the matching of the String with the regular expression. To keep results that do not match, specify !=. In order to match the ZIP code using regular expression, we use the matches method in Java. You can specify that the regex command keeps results that match the expression by using =. Optional arguments Syntax: Description: Specify the field name from which to match the values against the regular expression. The regular expression must be a Perl Compatible Regular Expression supported by the PCRE library. Regex (= | != | ) Required arguments Syntax: "" Description: An unanchored regular expression. Therefore, the case insensitive flag (i) would not be of any use here.Removes results that match or do not match the specified regular expression. ZIP codes are numeric in nature, and may contain a dash of a space. The last 4 digits can be separated from the first 5 by a dash or space, or they can be written without any separator.
How do we write a regular expression that will match or validate a ZIP code?Ī regular expression for ZIP codes needs to match 5 digits at the start, followed by 4 optional digits that further refine the region. ZIP codes are postal codes used in the United States, and are used with an address to describe the region that the address is located in.