abs() ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: A question of negative numbers..
Hi, I have a query that returns a list of numbers ranging from -10 to +10 I would like to be able to have a 2nd column where a result of 5 is 5 but -5 is also 5, so in effect all the negative (and only the negative) results are made positive to find the deviation from zero. so 5, 4, -3, 4, -1, 0 would become 5, 4, 3, 4, 1, 0 I have been searching for if then else in google so I could do if a < 0 then a = 0-a but no joy. is there a function to make negative numbers positive? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
