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converting an triming field values

codedtech
Path Finder

I need to to convert this field in to a number and remove the $ capacity_gb = $8,191.75, I've tried eval to num and convert, but nothing worked.

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Try this

| makeresults 
| eval capacity_gb = "$8,191.75" 
| eval capacity_gb = replace(capacity_gb,"\$","")
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renjith_nair
Legend

@codedtech .

Try

|rex mode=sed field=capacity_gb "s/[^\d\.]//g"

If you need , also part of you value, just add , to the square bracket

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

To clarify, what do you get from | eval x = tonumber(capacity_gb) | table capacity_gb x ?

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codedtech
Path Finder

Yes, and the output is displayed like this:
capacity_gb x
$8,191.75

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