Regular Expressions

Regular expressions are extremely useful. They are everywhere, including in Splunk. And they are useful to everyone, not just data administrators onboarding new data. This could be you:

(My graphic designer friend Dominique Sénon made a little mistake in this regex, did you spot it?)

In 2016 I did a talk at Splunk's conference. The first half is an introduction to regular expressions, with a focus on things that trip beginners. The second half is some demonstration of how Splunk users can use regular expressions in their SPL.

The slides are here: https://conf.splunk.com/files/2016/slides/become-a-regular-expressions-ninja-and-unlock-your-splunk-potential.pdf

And the video is here: https://conf.splunk.com/files/2016/recordings/become-a-regular-expressions-ninja-and-unlock-your-splunk-potential.mp4 You can hear I was a little nervous at the beginning!