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The IEC operator is used to divide variables.

Permitted data types: ‎BYTE‎, ‎WORD‎, ‎DWORD‎, ‎LWORD‎, ‎SINT‎, ‎USINT‎, ‎INT‎, ‎UINT‎, ‎DINT‎, ‎UDINT‎, ‎LINT‎, ‎ULINT‎, ‎REAL‎, ‎LREAL‎, ‎TIME‎

NOTICE

NOTICE
NOTICE
NOTICE

NOTICE

NOTICE

Division by zero may have different results depending on the target system.

Examples

ST 

var1 := 8/2;

FBD

1. Series of DIV blocks, 2. Single DIV block, 3. DIV POU with EN/ENO parameters

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Note that it is possible to monitor division by zero at runtime by using the implicit monitoring functions ‎CheckDivInt‎, ‎CheckDivLint‎, ‎CheckDivReal‎, and ‎CheckDivLReal‎.