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----- Original Message -----
From: <critters@stripped>
To: <mysql@stripped>
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?
