touch.position, Mathf.Abs... Please Help Me!!

Hello,

I'm very new to this. I don't know much about scripting, but I'm starting to wrap my head around it.

I'm having trouble with detecting a swipe. I'm not getting errors in my script, but it doesn't seem to be calculating Mathf.Abs properly and therefore I'm not achieving the desired effect.

I narrowed it down and I believe that it is a problem with what touch.position is returning. This is what I'm doing:

If I want to get a vertical swipe I get the start touch.position and end touch.position and subtract the end position ( x ) from the start position ( x ) and see if it is less than a specific pixel value (200 pixels for example). If it is less than the pixel value, then it is considered to be a swipe. I do the same for horizontal swipes. (there are other conditions that have to be met in order for a swipe to be recognized, but this is the only problematic condition)

The problem is that the end touch.position is always returning a larger number for x than for y regardless of wether it is a vertical or horizontal swipe. My understanding is that touch.position returns the Vector 2 like this (x,y).

Is there anybody out there that can help??? Please provide an example for the ultra newb.

Here is my code:

 #pragma strict
 
 function Start () {
 
 }
 var touchedObj: boolean = false; // Has the object been touched
 
 var moving: boolean = false; // this has to be true to move
 
 var comfortZoneVerticalSwipe: float = 500; // the vertical swipe will have to be inside a 50 pixels horizontal boundary
 
 var comfortZoneHorizontalSwipe: float = 50; // the horizontal swipe will have to be inside a 50 pixels vertical boundary
 
 var minSwipeDistance: float = 14; // the swipe distance will have to be longer than this for it to be considered a swipe
 
 var maxSwipeTime: float = 10; // the swipe time will have to be less than this to be considered a swipe
 
 //the following 4 variables are used in some cases that I don’t want my character to be allowed to move on the board (it’s a board game)
 var allowGoUp: boolean = true;
 var allowGoRight: boolean = true;
 var allowGoLeft: boolean = true;
 var allowGoDown: boolean = true; 
 
 
 function Update () 
 {
 
     if (Input.touchCount >0) 
     {
         
         var touch = Input.touches[0];
 
         switch (touch.phase) 
         { //following are 2 cases
             
             case TouchPhase.Began: //here begins the 1st case
             
             print("began");
             
             var ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(touch.position);
 
             var hit : RaycastHit;
         
             var layerMask = 1 << 8;
             
             var startPos = touch.position;
             
             var startTime = Time.time;
             
             if (Physics.Raycast (ray, hit, Mathf.Infinity, layerMask))
             
             {
                 print("touched");
                 touchedObj = true;
                 
             }
             
             break; //here ends the 1st case
             
             
             
             case TouchPhase.Ended: //here begins the 2nd case
             
             print("end");
             Debug.Log (startPos);
             var swipeTime = Time.time - startTime;
             
             var swipeDist = (touch.position - startPos).magnitude;
             
             var endPos = touch.position;
             Debug.Log (endPos); //This is how I found that the x value in the end touch.position is always greater regardless of the horizontal or vertical swipe
             
             if (touchedObj && Mathf.Abs(touch.position.x - startPos.x)<comfortZoneVerticalSwipe && (swipeTime < maxSwipeTime) && (swipeDist > minSwipeDistance) && Mathf.Sign(touch.position.y - startPos.y)>0 && !moving && allowGoUp)
             {
                 
                 //... then go up
                 moving=true;
                 print ("UPUPUP");
                 // code here for upward movement
             }
 
 
             if (touchedObj && (Mathf.Abs(touch.position.x - startPos.x))<comfortZoneVerticalSwipe && (swipeTime < maxSwipeTime) && (swipeDist > minSwipeDistance) && Mathf.Sign(touch.position.y - startPos.y)<0 && !moving && allowGoDown)
             {
                 
                 //... then go down
                 moving=true;
                 print ("DOWNDOWN");
                 // code here for downward movement
             }
 
 
             if (touchedObj && (Mathf.Abs(touch.position.y - startPos.y))<comfortZoneHorizontalSwipe && (swipeTime < maxSwipeTime) && (swipeDist > minSwipeDistance) && Mathf.Sign(touch.position.x - startPos.x)<0 && !moving && allowGoLeft)
             {
                 
                 //... then go left
                 moving=true;
                 print ("LEFTLEFT");
                 // code here for left movement
             }
 
             if (touchedObj && (Mathf.Abs(touch.position.y - startPos.y))<comfortZoneHorizontalSwipe && (swipeTime < maxSwipeTime) && (swipeDist > minSwipeDistance) && Mathf.Sign(touch.position.x - startPos.x)>0 && !moving && allowGoRight)
             {
                 
                 //...then go right
                 moving=true;
                 print ("RIGHTRIGHT");
                 // code here for right movement
             }
 
             break;     //here ends the 2nd case
 
         }
     }
 }

Keep in mind that I'm using "Unity Remote 3" to test this on my iPad.

I was thinking that a raycast might work, but I would think that it isn't necessary since touch.position should do the job fine. If you think a raycast is the only way to do this, could you please supply an example.

Thanks a mil in advance.