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How do I stop Splunk from rounding values that are less than 1?

jambalaya_rice
Engager

I was doing basic operations (+ - * / ) in Splunk and I noticed that if I was subtracting a number less than 0 with another number that is basically 0 (i.e. 0.04190232 - 0.0), it would return 0 unless I put the expression in an eval function called exact.

How can I make Splunk NEVER round in my search?

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

When performing mathematical operations between two decimal operands, the Splunk takes the lowest precision of the two operands and use the same in final result. So,

0.04190232 - 0.0 = 0  [ same as round(0.04190232,1) ]
0.04190232 - 0.00 = 0.04  [ same as round(0.04190232,2) ]
0.04190232 - 0.000 = 0.042  [ same as round(0.04190232,3) ]

If one of the operand is integer, then a lowest precision of remaining decimal operand is considered for final result

 0.04190232 - 0 = 0.04190232  [ takes precision of 0.04190232 ]
 0.04190232 - 0.00 - 0 = 0.04  [ takes precision of 0.00 ]

So, choose/define appropriate precision for your operands.

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