Negative int to positive ulong?

[Curt Krueger]

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

[JaD]

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

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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.

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

thanks,
Curt

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Curt Krueger <ck******@DONOTRY.com> wrote:

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?

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

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

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[Curt Krueger]

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

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

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

--
Jon Skeet

Yes it is, thank you very much guys!

Curt