# Regex to extract number from text

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-to-extract-number-from-text/190507>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-to-extract-number-from-text/190507 "2019-07-15T10:51:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![amr.abdelfattah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@amr.abdelfattah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amr.abdelfattah)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-to-extract-number-from-text/190507/1 "2019-07-15T10:51:22Z")

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I want to extract number of Milliseconds from below text with regex (i.e extract 762 from **in [762] Millies** )

```
2019-07-02 16:56:44.824 [SUBSCRIBER_PROFILE-1115501650-9f7a9309-6bd7-44fb-83ea-2ee0ff37a50d] Response [<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<subscriberProfileResponse>
    <errorCode>99999</errorCode>
    <responseStatus>FAILED</responseStatus>
</subscriberProfileResponse>
] in [762] Millies.
```

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-to-extract-number-from-text/190507/2 "2019-07-15T11:50:52Z")

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Where do you want to run that? In logstash? In an ingest pipeline? What did you try so far?

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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 12, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-to-extract-number-from-text/190507/3 "2019-08-12T11:59:26Z")

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