getting absolute value when rounding

[jenim514]

Hi all,

I working on formatting mean output, and I am getting a -0.00 for a mean after rounding.  Is there a way to remove the '-' in the datastep?

 the values before rounding :

Mean= -1.4803E-16

SD= 7.6109968288

Currently have:

_1=strip(put(MEAN, 8.2)) ||' ('||strip(put(SD, 8.3))||')';

This creates -0.00 (7.611)

Want something like 

_1=strip(put (abs(MEAN, 8.2))) ||' ('||strip(put(SD, 8.3))||')';  - so I get the absolute value of -0.00

(but obviously this way did not work).

Help is appreciated!

Jen

[Astounding · Accepted solution]

See if this does what you want:

_1=strip(put(round(MEAN, 0.01), 8.2)) ||' ('||strip(put(SD, 8.3))||')';