1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03080601xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Abs Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03080601.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-24T09:34:00">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="abs"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3159201"><bookmark_value>Abs function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159201" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03080601.xhp" name="Abs Function [Runtime]">Abs Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the absolute value of a numeric expression.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149233" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147573" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Abs (Number)</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156152" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Double</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51<emph>Number:</emph> Any numeric expression that you want to return the absolute value for. Positive numbers, including 0, are returned unchanged, whereas negative numbers are converted to positive numbers.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153381" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">The following example uses the Abs function to calculate the difference between two values. It does not matter which value you enter first.</paragraph> 53<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 54<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 55<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148451" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleDifference</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim siW1 As Single</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim siW2 As Single</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">siW1 = Int(InputBox$ ("Please enter the first amount","Value input"))</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">siW2 = Int(InputBox$ ("Please enter the second amount","Value input"))</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145750" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Print "The difference is "; Abs(siW1 - siW2)</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">End Sub</paragraph> 63</body> 64</helpdocument> 65