of course!! that cleaned up my example (too many n's) - tnx k

>>Is there a function in VFP that turns a negative number into positive?
>>

>>N = -100
>>N = N-2*N  && this will do it but is there simply a function that will convert it.
>>

>>
>>thanks
>>k
>

>N = -100
>N = -N
>?N
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