Real division (rdiv, /)

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Description

Creates a column that returns a floating-point approximation to the quotient of the division of 2 values when there is not an integer result.

How does it work in the search window?

Select Create column in the search window toolbar, then select the Real division operation. You need to specify two arguments:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
Divide ^mandatory	integer, float
by ^mandatory	integer, float

The data type of the values in the new column is integer or float.

Example

The examples in this article use values in a data table generated from the following CSV file.

If you want to try the example for yourself, download the file and upload it to your domain clicking Data upload in the navigation pane. Name the new table my.upload.sample.data and select Current date as Date parsing type. Learn more about uploading data in Uploading log files.

After receiving the confirmation message, you can access the table from the Finder, selecting my → upload → sample → data. When you upload data from a file, all the information is included in a single column called message. To split the values into different columns, you can use the Split (split) operation. Click Toggle Query Editor in the search window toolbar and paste the following LINQ query to save time:

from my.upload.sample.data
select split(message, ";", 17) as numbers,
int(numbers) as numbers_int

In the my.upload.sample.data table, we want to get the real division of the values in the numbers_int column of our table by 2. To do it, we will create a new column using the Real division operation.

The arguments needed to create the new column are:

Divide - numbers_int column
by - Click the pencil icon and enter 2

Click Create column 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 of the Real division operation:

rdiv(number1, number2)
number1 / number2

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, ";", 17) as numbers,
int(numbers) as numbers_int
  select numbers_int / 2 as numbers_int_rdiv