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title: drop() function
description: >
  `drop()` removes specified columns from a table.
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`drop()` removes specified columns from a table.

Columns are specified either through a list or a predicate function.
When a dropped column is part of the group key, it is removed from the key.
If a specified column is not present in a table, the function returns an error.

##### Function type signature

```js
(<-tables: stream[A], ?columns: [string], ?fn: (column: string) => bool) => stream[B] where A: Record, B: Record
```

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## Parameters

### columns

List of columns to remove from input tables. Mutually exclusive with `fn`.



### fn

Predicate function with a `column` parameter that returns a boolean
value indicating whether or not the column should be removed from input tables.
Mutually exclusive with `columns`.



### tables

Input data. Default is piped-forward data (`<-`).




## Examples

- [Drop a list of columns](#drop-a-list-of-columns)
- [Drop columns matching a predicate](#drop-columns-matching-a-predicate)

### Drop a list of columns

```js
import "sampledata"

sampledata.int()
    |> drop(columns: ["_time", "tag"])

```

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#### Input data

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | -2      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 10      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 7       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 17      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 15      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 4       | t1   |

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 19      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 4       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | -3      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 19      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 13      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1       | t2   |


#### Output data

| _value  |
| ------- |
| -2      |
| 10      |
| 7       |
| 17      |
| 15      |
| 4       |
| 19      |
| 4       |
| -3      |
| 19      |
| 13      |
| 1       |

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### Drop columns matching a predicate

```js
import "sampledata"

sampledata.int()
    |> drop(fn: (column) => column =~ /^t/)

```

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#### Input data

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | -2      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 10      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 7       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 17      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 15      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 4       | t1   |

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 19      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 4       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | -3      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 19      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 13      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1       | t2   |


#### Output data

| _time                | _value  |
| -------------------- | ------- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | -2      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 10      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 7       |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 17      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 15      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 4       |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 19      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 4       |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | -3      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 19      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 13      |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1       |

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