{"id":40126,"date":"2021-07-22T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=40126"},"modified":"2021-07-22T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:07:50","slug":"answer-by-warren-for-need-to-write-a-regex-to-extract-path-for-first-5-slashes-or-up-to-a-number-for-splunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=40126","title":{"rendered":"Answer by warren for Need to write a regex to extract path for first 5 slashes or up to a number for Splunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/regex101.com\/r\/VJrCM1\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">ugliness<\/a> will do what you want (though you may need to strip the ending <code>\/<\/code>, if you don&#8217;t want it:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\\\/\\\/[^\\\/]+(?&lt;pathnoendingnumbers&gt;\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+)?)?)?)?)[\\\/\\d$]?\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 206-step match, which may be improbable &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty efficient as is<\/p>\n<p>from User warren &#8211; Stack Overflow https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/68479024\/need-to-write-a-regex-to-extract-path-for-first-5-slashes-or-up-to-a-number-for\/68488077#68488077<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ugliness will do what you want (though you may need to strip the ending \/, if you don&#8217;t want it: \\\/\\\/[^\\\/]+(?&lt;pathnoendingnumbers&gt;\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+(\\\/[a-zA-Z-_][-_\\w]+)?)?)?)?)[\\\/\\d$]? It&#8217;s a 206-step match, which may be improbable &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty efficient as is from User warren &#8211; Stack Overflow https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/68479024\/need-to-write-a-regex-to-extract-path-for-first-5-slashes-or-up-to-a-number-for\/68488077#68488077 via IFTTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[991],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-40126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-stackexchange"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40127,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126\/revisions\/40127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40126"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=40126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}