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Find time differences between two extracted fields in the format HH:MM:SS

krussell101
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I have two fields in a single search row. start_time and end_time. they are both in the format HH:MM:SS. I'd like to calculate the duration end_time - start_time and have the results in the same format HH:MM:SS.

thanks!

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kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

To get the duration in the new field dur;

...| eval st=strptime(start_time, "%H:%M:%S") | eval et=strptime(end_time,"%H:%M:%S") | eval diff = et - st | eval dur = tostring(diff, "duration")

Read more on eval functions here;

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions

/k

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