Negative int to positive ulong?

I'll spare you the details of why we need this, but what I'm needing to do
is convert -9999 to a positive ulong value.

Any code examples or ideas on how to do this, where to look?

thanks,
Curt

re: Negative int to positive ulong?

int x = -9999;
ulong y = (ulong)Math.Abs(x);

"Curt Krueger" <ckrueger@DONOTRY.com> wrote in message
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> I'll spare you the details of why we need this, but what I'm needing to do
> is convert -9999 to a positive ulong value.
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> Any code examples or ideas on how to do this, where to look?
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> thanks,
> Curt
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re: Negative int to positive ulong?

Curt Krueger <ckrueger@DONOTRY.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'll spare you the details of why we need this, but what I'm needing to do
> is convert -9999 to a positive ulong value.
>
> Any code examples or ideas on how to do this, where to look?[/color]

int x = -9999;
ulong y = unchecked((ulong)x);
Console.WriteLine(y);

prints out 18446744073709541617 - is that what you're after?

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re: Negative int to positive ulong?

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> > Any code examples or ideas on how to do this, where to look?[/color]
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> int x = -9999;
> ulong y = unchecked((ulong)x);
> Console.WriteLine(y);
>
> prints out 18446744073709541617 - is that what you're after?
>
> --
> Jon Skeet[/color]

Yes it is, thank you very much guys!

Curt