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Hi,

What is the operator to calculate the difference between 2 numbers?

For example

Value 1 = -250
Value 2 = 250

Difference in numbers equals 500 etc..

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I have not had to do it before !

The key may be the abs (absolute) function:

put abs( tVal1 - tVal2)


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