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How to convert the output of tostring or convert a duration field?

jameswatts
Explorer

I have a search that returns the diff of two times, but the user wants it in "1 day 5 hours and 23 minutes" format not 00+00:00:00. I know regex can do this, but the possibility that the day value might not be present has me stumped. Any help appreciated.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try something like this (run anywhere example)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval diff=round(now()-relative_time(now(),"-2h")) | table diff | eval duration=tostring(diff,"duration") | eval duration2=replace(duration,"(\d*)\+*(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)","\1 days \2 hours \3 minutes \4 secs")

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try something like this (run anywhere example)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval diff=round(now()-relative_time(now(),"-2h")) | table diff | eval duration=tostring(diff,"duration") | eval duration2=replace(duration,"(\d*)\+*(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)","\1 days \2 hours \3 minutes \4 secs")

benhooper
Communicator

The following regex can be used to suppress any trailing substrings:

(\d*)\+*(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)(.*)
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jameswatts
Explorer

Perfect! Thanks much.

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