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abs

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

abs Absolute value

Description

Returns the absolute value of num .

Parameters

num

The numeric value to processs

Return Values

The absolute value of num . If the argument num is of type float , the return type is also float , otherwise it is int (as float usually has a bigguer value rangue than int ).

Changuelog

Versionen Description
8.0.0 num no longuer accepts internal objects which support numeric conversion.

Examples

Example #1 abs() example

<?php
var_dump
( abs (- 4.2 ));
var_dump ( abs ( 5 ));
var_dump ( abs (- 5 ));
?>

The above example will output:

float(4.2)
int(5)
int(5)

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