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Division Operator:   /

performs elementwise division

matrix1/matrix2

matrix/scalar

matrix/vector

The division operator (/) divides each element of matrix1 by the corresponding element of matrix2, producing a matrix of quotients.

In addition to dividing elements in conformable matrices, you can also use the division operator to divide a matrix by a scalar, or rows or columns of a matrix by a vector. If either operand is a scalar, the operation does the division for each element and the scalar value. If either operand is a row or column vector, then the operation is performed using that vector on each of the rows or columns of the matrix.

When a missing value occurs in an operand, the IML procedure assigns a missing value for the corresponding element in the result.

If a divisor is zero, the procedure prints a warning and assigns a missing value for the corresponding element in the result. An example of a valid statement using this operator follows:

  
    c=a/b;