Operator ‘DIV’

This IEC operator is used for dividing variables.

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

Attention

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 blocks with EN/ENO parameters

Note

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

See also

• POU ‘CheckDivInt’
• POU ‘CheckDivLInt’
• POU ‘CheckDivReal’
• POU ‘CheckDivLReal’