I want to replace '\\n' with '\n' i am using the gsub method but cannot replace ruby { code => "@mystring=event.get('stockLines'); @mystring=@mystring.gsub('\\n', '\n');" }

You could either change the code => "<ruby code>" to use single quotes, and change all quotes in your ruby code to double quotes (code => '@stockLines = @stockLines.to_s + event.get("stockInformation") + "\n"; <other code>'). Or you could extract the ruby script to a separate file, and link to it w…

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tgaudin July 18, 2018, 2:55pm 5

You can take a look at this topic, I had a similar issue with backslashes and the workaround is a bit ugly Parse nested key-values

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