# How logstash extracts specific characters from a path?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-extracts-specific-characters-from-a-path/310090>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-extracts-specific-characters-from-a-path/310090 "2022-07-20T06:13:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![wajika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@wajika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wajika)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-extracts-specific-characters-from-a-path/310090/1 "2022-07-20T06:13:45Z")

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I want to extract "acpro" as the service name from the path below, can anyone offer some advice?

```auto
/api/acpro/filter/dowork/ayc
/api/acpro/filter/toko
/api/acpro/filter/toko/user/passwd
/api/acpro/account/getsales/b77dd0bf-1f85-4240-bed7-cadf2a59c5e6
/api/acpro/product/getproduct

```

I've tried using %{PATH} and %{GREEDYDATA} , but can't get what I want.

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**Author:** ![sudhagar\_ramesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sudhagar_ramesh/32/105673_2.png) [@sudhagar\_ramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sudhagar_ramesh)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-extracts-specific-characters-from-a-path/310090/2 "2022-07-20T06:42:22Z")

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Hello @wajika

You can try like the below

`\/%{DATA:uri}\/%{DATA:servicename}\/%{GREEDYDATA:uris}`

Keep Posted!! Thanks !!!

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**Author:** ![wajika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@wajika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wajika)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-extracts-specific-characters-from-a-path/310090/3 "2022-07-20T06:45:21Z")

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This works, thanks, my problem is solved.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/f/ef513aea3f7f1c15ee9f1f64468bb1557046fd2c.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-extracts-specific-characters-from-a-path/310090/4 "2022-08-17T06:45:51Z")

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