Robert Cain continues a series on KQL:
The previous post in this series Fun With KQL – Extract, showed how we can use the
extract
operator to pull part of a string using regular expressions. I think you’d agree though, using regular expressions can be a bit tricky.If you have a string that is well formatted with recurring text you can count on, and want to pull one or more strings from it into their own columns, Kusto provides a much easier to use operator:
parse
.
Robert includes a series of examples, including examples of things you cannot do.