Labs () function in C

Labs () function in C

Function long int labs (long int x) returns the absolute value of x.

Declare labs () function in C

Below is the declaration for labs () in C:

 long int  labs ( long int  x ) 

Parameters

x: an integer value.

Returns the value

This function returns the absolute value of x.

For example

The following C program illustrates the usage of labs () in C:

 #include #include int  main  () { long int  a , b ;  a  =  labs ( 65987L );  printf ( "Gia tri cua a = %ldn" ,  a );  b  =  labs (- 1005090L );  printf ( "Gia tri cua b = %ldn" ,  b ); return ( 0 ); } 

Compiling and running the above C program will result:

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