How do I convert "3 days 5 hrs 40 min 11 sec" to seconds?

[hylam]

3*86400+5*3600+40*60+11=279611

The seconds part is always there. The minutes part exists when duration is at least 60 seconds. The hours part exists when duration is at least 60 minutes. The days part exists when duration is at least 24 hours. Knowledge objects have to produce the duration_in_second field automatically when I search for "*".

Bonus: add months and years

EDIT1: test case list
3 days 5 hrs 40 min 11 sec
5 hrs 40 min 11 sec
40 min 11 sec
11 sec

[woodcock]

Like this:

... | rex "(?:(?<numDays>\d+)\s+days\s+)?(?:(?<numHours>\d+)\s+hrs\s+)?(?:(?<numMins>\d+)\s+min\s+)?(?<numSecs>\d+)\s+sec" | eval duration_in_seconds = (((((numDays * 24) + numHours) * 60) + numMins) * 60) + numSecs

Given this, you should be able to figure out how to create the associated KOs but I will help a little on that. The eval part should be a calculated field; see here for all of what you need:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.1/admin/Propsconf

[hylam]

| makeresults count=1 | eval x="3 days 5 hrs 40 min 11 sec" | rex field=x "(?:(?<numDays>\d+)\s+days\s+)?(?:(?<numHours>\d+)\s+hrs\s+)?(?:(?<numMins>\d+)\s+min\s+)?(?<numSecs>\d+)\s+sec" | eval duration_in_seconds = ((((numDays * 24) + numHours) * 60) + numMins) * 60) + numSecs

Error in 'eval' command: The expression is malformed.

| makeresults count=1 | eval x="5 hrs 40 min 11 sec" | rex field=x "(?:(?<numDays>\d+)\s+days\s+)?(?:(?<numHours>\d+)\s+hrs\s+)?(?:(?<numMins>\d+)\s+min\s+)?(?<numSecs>\d+)\s+sec"

numDays field is null

[hylam]

btw how can i make syntax highlight?

[woodcock]

I was missing a single open parenthesis. I re-edited the answer and it works. Try it again.

[hylam]

Please handle the cases when days, hours or minutes are missing.

[woodcock]

OK, try this:

... | rex "(?:(?<numDays>\d+)\s+days\s+)?(?:(?<numHours>\d+)\s+hrs\s+)?(?:(?<numMins>\d+)\s+min\s+)?(?<numSecs>\d+)\s+sec" | eval duration_in_seconds = (((((if(isnull(numDays),0,numDays) * 24) + if(isnull(numHours),0,numHours)) * 60) + if(isnull(numMins),0,numMins)) * 60) + numSecs

[kurdbahr · Accepted solution]

How about this?

* | head 1 
| eval str="3 days 5 hrs 40 min 11 sec" 
| eval duration_in_seconds=tonumber(replace(str, ".*?(\d+) sec", "\1")) 
+ 60 * coalesce(tonumber(replace(str, ".*?(\d+) min.*", "\1")), 0) 
+ 3600 * coalesce(tonumber(replace(str, ".*?(\d+) hrs.*", "\1")),0) 
+ 86400 * coalesce(tonumber(replace(str, ".*?(\d+) days.*", "\1")),0) 
| table str,duration_in_seconds

The eval duration_... could be used in the definition of a calculated field.

EDIT:
The solution above may not be optimal with regard to performance, because the string has to be parsed four times.
The idea behind this was to do it in a single eval expression.

If you don't mind to create additional fields, it may be better to do it in two steps:

1st step: field extraction:

... | rex field=str "^((?<days>\d+) days )?((?<hours>\d+) hrs )?((?<minutes>\d+) min )?(?<seconds>\d+) sec" 

2nd step: field calculation:

... | eval duration_in_second=if(isnull(days),0,86400*days) 
+ if(isnull(hours),0,3600*hours) 
+ if(isnull(minutes),0,60*minutes) 
+ seconds 

[sundareshr]

This will give you that duration in seconds | gentimes start=-1 | eval d=3*86400+5*3600+40*60+11 | eval d=tostring(d, "duration"). You could set this up as a calculated field.

[hylam]

This is NOT what I have asked for. Please convert "3 days 5 hrs 40 min 11 sec" to 279611.

[sundareshr]

Sorry mis-read your question 🙂