Thursday 26 November 2009

Keeping it positive

I had a request that when the result of a particular expression was negative, then it should just display as zero (it was a measure of how far out of compliance the result was - a negative result meant that they were in compliance so zero was appropriate).

So I could do a simple:

if(myExpression > 0, myExpression, 0)

That is OK if the expression is simple, but if the expression is more complex then it becomes unwieldy and long and hence difficult to maintain.

A much more elegant way is to use RangeMax like this:

RangeMax(0, myExpression)

Very simple, if my expression dips into the negative then the max value in the range becomes 0. Exactly what I want to achieve and much easier to maintain.

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