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Rounding (round)

Description

Adds a new column that rounds the given number to the nearest integer or, if indicated, to a specified number of decimal places.

Use Floor (floor) if you want to get the largest previous integers, and Ceiling (ceil) to round to the smallest following integers.

How does it work in the search window?

Select Create column in the search window toolbar, then select the Rounding operation. You need to specify at least one argument:

Argument

Data type

Argument

Data type

Number to round mandatory

integer, float

Decimal precision

integer

The data type of the values in the new column is integer or float, depending on the selected input data.

Example

In the my.upload.sample.data table, we want to round the values in the numbers_float field of our table to one decimal place. To do it, we will create a new field using the Rounding operation.

The arguments needed to create the new field are:

  • Number to round numbers_float field

  • Decimal precision - Click the pencil icon and enter 1

Click Create field and you will see the following result:

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as...  and add the operation syntax to create the new column. These are the valid formats for the Rounding operation:

  • round(number)

  • round(number, integer_decimals)

Example

You can copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the my.upload.sample.data table.

from my.upload.sample.data select split(message, ";", 16) as numbers, float(numbers) as numbers_float, round(numbers_float, 1) as numbers_float_rounding