topic Re: calculating date and int columns in Splunk Search

How to calculate date and int columns?

ositaumeozulu — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 03:20:09 GMT

please i will be glad to get answer to this query

| eval InT = if(((lastpickupdate + DaysOfARVRefil + 28) > IIT), "Interrupted", "Active")

"lastpickupdate" and "IIT" columns are in date format, whereas "DaysOfARVRefil" is in Days(int)

please how do i successfully run this query

thanks

osita

Re: calculating date and int columns

somesoni2 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:55:39 GMT

Give this a try

| eval InT = if((strptime(lastpickupdate,"%Y-%m-%d") + (DaysOfARVRefil + 28)*86400) > strptime(IIT,"%Y-%m-%d"), "Interrupted", "Active")

(assuming both lastpickupdate and IIT has date in string and have format "%Y-%m-%d". If they are different, adjust the time format accordingly)

Re: calculating date and int columns

gcusello — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:56:53 GMT

Hi @ositaumeozulu,

to make calculations between dates you have always to convert dates in epochtime,

I don't know what's the format of lastpickupdate and IIT, I suppose that it's "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS",

So you could run something like this:

| eval InT = if(((strptime(lastpickupdate,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") + DaysOfARVRefil*86400 + 28*86400) > strptime(IIT,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")), "Interrupted", "Active")

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: calculating date and int columns

richgalloway — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:00:31 GMT

Splunk cannot do much with dates in string format. They should be converted into integers using the strptime function first. Also, the number of days should be converted into seconds before it is added to a timestamp.

| eval lastpickupts = strptime(lastpickupdate, "<<format string>>") | eval IITts = strptime(IIT, "<<format string>>") | eval SecsOfARVRefil = (DaysOfARVRefil + 28) * 86400 | eval InT = if(((lastpickupts + SecsOfARVRefil ) > IITts), "Interrupted", "Active")