Not equal (ne, /=)

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Description

You can apply this operation either as a Filter or Create column operation:

Filter	Compares two values of the same type and returns only the events where both values are not the same.
Create column	Compares two values of the same type and creates a Boolean column that shows true when both values are not the same.

Note that this operation is case sensitive, that is to say, same values in lowercase and uppercase will be considered as not equal.

How does it work in the search window?

Select Filter / Create column in the search window toolbar, then select the Not equal operation. You need to specify two arguments:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
Value ^mandatory	Any
is not equal to ^mandatory	The same as the Value data type

If you use the Create column operation, the data type of the values in the new column is boolean (true or false).

Example

In the demo.ecommerce.data table, we want to get only the events whose status code is different than 200. To do it, we will apply a Filter using the Not equal operation.

The arguments needed for the filter are:

Value - statusCode column
is not equal to - Click the pencil icon and enter 200

Click Filter data and you will see the following result:

Click Create column and follow the same steps to add a new Boolean column that shows true when the values in the statusCode column are different than 200.

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator where... to apply the Filter operation and select... as... to apply the Create column operation. These are the valid formats of the Not equal operation:

value1 /= value2
ne(value1, value2)

Examples

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

from demo.ecommerce.data
  where statusCode /= 200

or

from demo.ecommerce.data
  where ne(statusCode, 200)

And this is the same example using the Create column operation:

from demo.ecommerce.data
  select statusCode /= 200 as code_not_200

or