# Convert time field type string to integer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-time-field-type-string-to-integer/217578>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 3, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-time-field-type-string-to-integer/217578 "2020-02-03T08:59:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![111207](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/111207/32/53801_2.png) [@111207](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111207)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-time-field-type-string-to-integer/217578/1 "2020-02-03T08:59:11Z")

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I have a data type string format "22h30m15s"  
I would like to convert this data to type integer = 81,015 second

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**Author:** ![Jenni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jenni/32/29684_2.png) [@Jenni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jenni)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-time-field-type-string-to-integer/217578/2 "2020-02-03T16:25:56Z")

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You could solve that with a little bit of Ruby:

```
ruby {
  code => "
    s = event.get('your_field')
    vals = s.match /(\d+)h(\d+)m(\d+)s/
    if vals then
      seconds = vals[1].to_i*3600+vals[2].to_i*60+vals[3].to_i
      event.set('your_int_field', seconds)
    end
  "
}
```

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**Author:** ![111207](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/111207/32/53801_2.png) [@111207](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111207)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-time-field-type-string-to-integer/217578/3 "2020-02-04T05:47:25Z")

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Hi, Jenni

Thank you for you recommend.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 5:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-time-field-type-string-to-integer/217578/4 "2020-03-03T05:47:28Z")

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