To IPv4 (ip4)

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Description

Converts an integer or a string representing an IPv4 address into an IPv4 address in ip data type.

How does it work in the search window?

Select Create column in the search window toolbar, then select the To IPv4 operation. You need to specify one argument:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
String to convert / Integer to convert ^mandatory	string, integer

The data type of the values in the new column is ip.

Example

In the demo.ecommerce.data table, we want to transform the numbers in the bytesTransferred column into IP addresses. To do it, click Create column and select the To IPv4 operation. The arguments needed are:

Integer to convert - bytesTransferred column

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 To IPv4 operation:

ip4(ipv4_string)
ip4(ipv4_integer)

Example

You can copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the demo.ecommerce.data table.

from demo.ecommerce.data
select ip4(bytesTransferred) as IPv4