BigDecimal#abs

abs → bigdecimal

ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c View on GitHub ↗

static VALUE
BigDecimal_abs(VALUE self)
{
    ENTER(5);
    Real *c, *a;
    size_t mx;

    GUARD_OBJ(a, GetVpValue(self, 1));
    mx = a->Prec *(VpBaseFig() + 1);
    GUARD_OBJ(c, NewZeroWrapLimited(1, mx));
    VpAsgn(c, a, 1);
    VpChangeSign(c, 1);
    return VpCheckGetValue(c);
}

Returns the BigDecimal absolute value of self:

Example

BigDecimal('5').abs  # => 0.5e1
BigDecimal('-3').abs # => 0.3e1

See also #>= #add #> #as_json also in 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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