The C library function int abs(int x) returns the absolute value of int x.
Following is the declaration for abs() function.
int abs(int x)
x − This is the integral value.
This function returns the absolute value of x.
The following example shows the usage of abs() function.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main () { int a, b; a = abs(5); printf("value of a = %d\n", a); b = abs(-10); printf("value of b = %d\n", b); return(0); }
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −
value of a = 5 value of b = 10