How to remove the minus from a value?

Here's a situation.

double X;
Open[1] - Close[1] = X ;

Now X can be a minus value or plus value depending on where the market opened or closed.

If the market closed below the open then its a positive value.
If the market opened below the close then its a negative value.

But when I get a minus value I want to remove the minus sign from the value, ie if its a negative value as in case 2 mentioned above

Basically what I am looking for is the no of pips between the open and close of a bar.

How do I solve this?

double X;
X=Open[1] - Close[1];
if(X<0)
X=X*-1;
return(X);

Thanks :-)

MathAbs(Open[1] - Close[1])

or

MathAbs(Open[1] - Close[1]) / Point, if you want the 'number of pips' instead of the 'distance' between open and close.

Use MathAbs();
this returns the positive value of the value.

Thanks Craig and Oksana...that seems to be exactly what i want. Makes things very simple. Thanks once again :-)

You are welcome.

isn't there a command to get the absolute value?

mathabs or somethin


EDIT:

beaten too it