Positive Number to Negative Number in JavaScript?

Question

Basically, the reverse of abs. If I have:

if ($this.find(\'.pdxslide-activeSlide\').index() < slideNum - 1) {
  slideNum = -slideNum
}
console.log(slideNu         


        

Answer 1

If you don't feel like using Math.Abs * -1 you can you this simple if statement :P

if (x > 0) {
    x = -x;
}

Of course you could make this a function like this

function makeNegative(number) {
    if (number > 0) {
        number = -number;
    }
}

makeNegative(-3) => -3 makeNegative(5) => -5

Hope this helps! Math.abs will likely work for you but if it doesn't this little