Regular Expressions 101

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group my_field(?<my_field>\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

$end of line

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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Regular Expression

\s+(?<my_field>\w+)$

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I have the below set of events where I wanted to write regex to capture only the last word
I have the below set of events where I wanted to write regex to capture only the last
I have the below set of events where I wanted to write regex to capture only the
I have the below set of events where I wanted to write regex to capture only

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