1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3226a8927SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4cdf0e10cSrcweir * 5226a8927SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6226a8927SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7226a8927SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 8226a8927SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9226a8927SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10226a8927SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11226a8927SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13226a8927SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15226a8927SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16226a8927SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17226a8927SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18226a8927SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19226a8927SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20226a8927SAndrew Rist * under the License. 21cdf0e10cSrcweir * 22226a8927SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 23226a8927SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03080601xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Abs Function [Runtime]</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03080601.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="abs"> 33734551d2Smseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3159201"> 34734551d2Smseidel<bookmark_value>Abs function</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 36*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159201" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03080601.xhp" name="Abs Function [Runtime]">Abs Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Returns the absolute value of a numeric expression.</paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149233" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147573" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Abs (Number)</paragraph> 41*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156152" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 42*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Double</paragraph> 43*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 44*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><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> 45*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153381" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">The following example uses the Abs function to calculate the difference between two values. It does not matter which value you enter first.</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 48*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148451" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 49*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleDifference</paragraph> 50*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim siW1 As Single</paragraph> 51*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim siW2 As Single</paragraph> 52*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145786" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">siW1 = Int(InputBox$ ("Please enter the first amount","Value input"))</paragraph> 53*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">siW2 = Int(InputBox$ ("Please enter the second amount","Value input"))</paragraph> 54*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145750" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print "The difference is "; Abs(siW1 - siW2)</paragraph> 55*bfc28023Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 58