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Reformat Date represented by string

atornes
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One of the fields of my data is a date, represented as a string like 20120215. I need to reformat this date to m/d/y. How can I do this?

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Ayn
Legend

Use eval with a combination of strptime and strftime to convert your string to a date in epoch format and then convert it back to the format you want it in:

... | eval reformatted_date=strftime(strptime(original_datefield,"%Y%m%d"),"%m/%d/%y")

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jaxjohnny
Path Finder

This works, but does not seem to sort as a date

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Ayn
Legend

Use eval with a combination of strptime and strftime to convert your string to a date in epoch format and then convert it back to the format you want it in:

... | eval reformatted_date=strftime(strptime(original_datefield,"%Y%m%d"),"%m/%d/%y")
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