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rex extract field not working as expected/ miss handling ")" in regex

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Hi I have a field with following value 16/08/2018 03:04:11 - Christian (Work notes) Remote Desktop Notes: - still unable to remote in to the machine 10/08/2018 07:11:53 - Christian (Work notes) Remote Desktop Notes: - machine is offline - 08/08/2018 01:11:53 - Sam (Work notes) Remote Desktop Notes: - machine is comprimised This is all job comments relate with the work and I want to get the last comment only of the job which will be the string between the first and second timestamps - Christian (Work notes) Remote Desktop Notes: - still unable to remote in to the machine I tried use following regex in regex101.com, it seems works fine. ^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s-\s(?.+?(?=\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s-\s)) But when I put the rex into the query it does not return anything ... | rex field=work_notes "^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s-\s(?.+?(?=\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s-\s))" | table number lastcomment so I am doing some testing and find the problem is splunk miss reading the ")" as if I do following query ... rex field=work_notes "^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s-\s(?.*)" | table number lastcomment it return as Christian (Work notes) instead of the whole string as what ".*" expect to do Christian (Work notes) Remote Desktop Notes: - still unable to remote in to the machine 10/08/2018 07:11:53 - Christian (Work notes) Remote Desktop Notes: - machine is offline - 08/08/2018 01:11:53 - Sam (Work notes) Remote Desktop Notes: - machine is comprimised and if I put space between * and ) like below ...| rex field=work_notes "^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s-\s(?.* )" | table number lastcomment it will return as Christian (Work Sorry for the long post, any suggestion what is going on there?

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