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How to create n strings for n months?

nick405060
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I need to create monthly filenames (2018-06-01.csv, 2018-07-01.csv, etc.) for n months. I can do something similar by day with n=30:

| makeresults | eval count=mvrange(0,30,1) | mvexpand count | eval filename=strftime(now()-count\*86400

How do I do this by month, something similar to the below syntax?

| makeresults | eval count=mvrange(0,12,1) | mvexpand count | eval filename=strftime(relative_time(now(), count \* "-1mon")
1 Solution

nick405060
Motivator

Turns out it was pretty easy:

| makeresults | eval count=mvrange(0,12,1) | mvexpand count | eval modifier="-"+tostring(count)+"mon" | eval filename=strftime(relative_time(now(),modifier),"%Y-%m-%d.csv")

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nick405060
Motivator

Turns out it was pretty easy:

| makeresults | eval count=mvrange(0,12,1) | mvexpand count | eval modifier="-"+tostring(count)+"mon" | eval filename=strftime(relative_time(now(),modifier),"%Y-%m-%d.csv")

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