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Date Format in required form

ncbshiva
Communicator

Hi i have a Date in the below form

201304
201306
201307

I want to convert to these to below form

APR-13
JUN-13
JUL-13

Please help me in this

Thanking you

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can do that with a combination of strptime and strftime, see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions for reference.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can do that with a combination of strptime and strftime, see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions for reference.

martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this:

... | eval newdate = upper(strftime(strptime(date+"01", "%Y%m%d"), "%b-%y"))
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ncbshiva
Communicator

i tried to convert using above functions, but didn,t work.
Please help me .

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