https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-field-type-as-string-when-upload-local-csv-file/m-p/389828#M95196 <P>when upload local csv file, i can't found a way to set field from number type to string type. By default splunk set the field with numer type which i don't want. So, i wonder to know how to set field type as string when upload csv file.</P> Thu, 23 May 2019 12:46:49 GMT guifeng007 2019-05-23T12:46:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-field-type-as-string-when-upload-local-csv-file/m-p/389828#M95196 <P>when upload local csv file, i can't found a way to set field from number type to string type. By default splunk set the field with numer type which i don't want. So, i wonder to know how to set field type as string when upload csv file.</P> Thu, 23 May 2019 12:46:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-field-type-as-string-when-upload-local-csv-file/m-p/389828#M95196 guifeng007 2019-05-23T12:46:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-field-type-as-string-when-upload-local-csv-file/m-p/389829#M95197 <P>Splunk generally doesn't care about data type. A sequence of digits will be treated as a number by default and as a string when necessary. You can always force conversion to a string with <CODE>tostring()</CODE>.</P> Thu, 23 May 2019 16:56:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-field-type-as-string-when-upload-local-csv-file/m-p/389829#M95197 richgalloway 2019-05-23T16:56:20Z