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How to remove part of my value to create a new value?

Robbie1194
Communicator

Hi guys,

My goal is to remove part of my value to create a new value.

For example, I have a field called created_time = 1517789420.357994. Does anyone know a way of getting newCreatedTime = 1517789420?

I basically just want the .* to go away!

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers!

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micahkemp
Champion
| eval newCreatedTime=floor(created_time)

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cmerriman
Super Champion

@micahkemp 's answer is great, you could also try |eval newCreatedTime =mvindex(split(created_time,"."),0) I only mention this in case you ever need to split a field that isn't numeric. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.0/SearchReference/MultivalueEvalFunctions

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micahkemp
Champion
| eval newCreatedTime=floor(created_time)
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