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RonD
Explorer
11-16-2020
06:43 AM
We have a search that populates a csv file for tracking purposes of latest check-ins formatted as (%m/%d/%Y)
| Host | agent1_date | agent2_date | agent3_date | agent4_date | agent5_date |
| Asset1 | 11/16/2020 | 11/15/2020 | 11/16/2020 | 11/13/2020 | 11/16/2020 |
| Asset2 | 11/15/2020 | 11/13/2020 | 11/13/2020 | 11/13/2020 |
How do I go about on comparing all these dates and get the latest value and write it to a new column - latest date
Expected outcome:
| Host | agent1_date | agent2_date | agent3_date | agent4_date | agent5_date | latest_date |
| Asset1 | 11/16/2020 | 11/15/2020 | 11/16/2020 | 11/13/2020 | 11/16/2020 | 11/16/2020 |
| Asset2 | 11/15/2020 | 11/13/2020 | 11/13/2020 | 11/13/2020 | 11/15/2020 |
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rnowitzki
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11-16-2020
07:42 AM
Hi @RonD ,
Maybe not the most dynamic solution, but it should work:
| eval latest_date=strftime(max(strptime(agent1_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent2_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent3_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent4_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent5_date,"%m/%d/%Y")),"%m/%d/%Y")
The strptime and strftime is to convert it to epoch and back to "humand readable" in order to make the dates comparable.
Hope it helps
BR
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RonD
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11-16-2020
08:20 AM
Thank you, this is actually working well for my requirements!
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rnowitzki
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11-16-2020
07:42 AM
Hi @RonD ,
Maybe not the most dynamic solution, but it should work:
| eval latest_date=strftime(max(strptime(agent1_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent2_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent3_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent4_date,"%m/%d/%Y"),strptime(agent5_date,"%m/%d/%Y")),"%m/%d/%Y")
The strptime and strftime is to convert it to epoch and back to "humand readable" in order to make the dates comparable.
Hope it helps
BR
Ralph
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