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In addition to this guide, see the list of Custom Expression Examples that demonstrates some of the possibilities.

Operators Supported in Custom Metric Expressions:

Boolean Not

!

Unary Plus, Unary Minus

+x, -x

Modulus

%

Division

/

Multiplication

*

Addition, Subtraction

+, -

Less or Equal, More or Equal

<=, >=

Less Than, Greater Than

<, >

Not Equal, Equal

!=, ==

Boolean And

&&

Boolean Or

||

Assignment

=

Variables Supported in Custom Metric Expressions:

Variable Assignment

Assignment allows the values of variables to be set by using the = operator in equations so it is possible to assign values with expressions like

x = 3

then use the assigned values in an expression such as

y = x^2

and y will have the value 9.  Assignment is enabled by default.  Variable names can not have "." in the name.

Functions Supported in Custom Metric Expressions:

Trigonometric Functions

All functions accept arguments of the Double and Complex type, except atan2 which only accepts Double arguments.

Description

Function Name

Sine

sin(x)

Cosine

cos(x)

Tangent

tan(x)

Arc Sine2

asin(x)

Arc Cosine2

acos(x)

Arc Tangent

atan(x)

Arc Tan with 2 parameters

atan2(y, x)

Secant

sec(x)

Cosecant

cosec(x)

Co-tangent

cot(x)

Hyperbolic Sine

sinh(x)

Hyperbolic Cosine

cosh(x)

Hyperbolic Tangent

tanh(x)

Inverse Hyperbolic Sine

asinh(x)

Inverse Hyperbolic Cosine1

acosh(x)

Inverse Hyperbolic Tangent1

atanh(x)

Log and Exponential Functions

All functions accept arguments of the Double and Complex types.

Description

Function Name

Natural Logarithm1

ln(x)

Logarithm base 101

log(x)

Logarithm base 21

lg(x)

Exponential (e^x)

exp(x)

Power1

pow(x)

Statistical Functions

All functions accept either a vector (e.g. min(1,2,3)) or a set of numbers (e.g.min(1,2,3)).

Description

Function Name

Average

avg(x1,x2,x3,...)

Minimum

min(x1,x2,x3,...)

Maximum

max(x1,x2,x3,...)

Vector Sum

vsum(x1,x2,x3,...)

Rounding Functions

Description

Function Name

Round

round(x), round(x, p)

Round to integer

rint(x), rint(x, p)

Floor

floor(x)

Ceiling

ceil(x)

Miscellaneous Functions

Description

Function Name

If

if(cond, trueval, falseval)

Str (convert number to string)

str(x)

Absolute Value / Magnitude

abs(x)

Random number
(between 0 and 1)

rand()

Modulus

mod(x,y)
= x % y

Square Root1

sqrt(x)

Sum

sum(x,y,...)

Binomial coefficients

binom(n, i)

Signum
(-1,0,1 depending on sign of argument)

signum(x)

Complex Functions

Description

Function Name

Real Component

re(c)

Imaginary Component

im(c)

Complex Modulus (Absolute Value)

cmod(c)

Argument (Angle of complex value, in radians)

arg(c)

Complex conjugate

conj(c)

Complex, constructs a complex number from real and imaginary parts

complex(x, y)

Polar, constructs a complex number from modulus and argument

polar(r, theta)

Notes

1 By default functions like sqrt(-1) will return a complex result. These functions have constructors with a flag to control their behaviour for out of range values, if the flag is true, then the function will return Double.NaN for out of range real values. If the flag is false they will return the appropriate complex result.

2 By default functions like acos(2) will return Double.NaN. A constructor is available which sets a flag to make the function return the appropriate complex result for such cases.Trigonometric Functions
All functions accept arguments of the Double and Complex type, except atan2 which only accepts Double arguments.

Other Functions

Class

Description

LogTwoArg

Two argument log function where second argument is the base.

Remainder

Calculates the remainder and quotient the arguments. Constructors allow different conventions for remainder to be used.

RoundSF

Rounds arguments to a specific number of significant figures.

FromBase

Converts a string in a given base to numbers.

Switch

A switch statement. Returns the value of the argument based on the value of the first argument.

SwitchDefault

A switch statement with a default value as final argument.

Case

A case statement, first argument is test condition, following arguments are in pairs with a test value and corresponding result.

IsNull

Tests if the argument is null.

IsNaN

Tests if the argument is NaN.

IsInfinite

Tests if the argument is infinite.

IsType

Test is the argument is of the type specifies in the constructor. E.g. isDouble

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