Painless script unable to recognize special chars in String

[vchang]

Hi Everyone,

PLEASE HELP!!

Kibana 5.4

My team and I are trying to do a simple task: Given a string, extract a specific part of a URL. For example if my string is "GET path="/social/holiday-gift-guide/..." we want to always extract what is right after last slash of "social" and right before the slash before "guide". The use case is that "holiday-gift-guide" is just a place holder and will NOT always be the case. i.e gift-bag, christmas-tree, etc.

The following script has no errors. The assumption is that on line 8. indexOf("/social/") has special characters that proceed it which are =" . Because of this, I am not seeing expected behavior which is to return the fields I am interested in.

Can someone please give a detailed explanation on why this is happening? Not so sure that escaping the characters are going to work in this case.

[rjernst (Ryan Ernst)]

Please don't post images of text as they are hardly readable and not searchable.

Instead paste the text and format it with </> icon. Check the rendering with the preview window.

I recommend debugging your code using java, starting with a given value you expect to get from the message.keyword field, and testing the result with your code.