Computing an interated R-integral

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I want to compute $\int_B f\,\mathrm{d}(x,y)$ with $B=\{(x,y)\in\mathbb{R}^2: |x|<y<a, \ a>0\}$ and $f=ye^{x/y}$.

Since we have $|x|<y<a$ I thought to split the integral like this:

$\int_0^a\int_x^af\mathrm{d}y\mathrm{d}x + \int_{-a}^0\int_{-x}^af\mathrm{d}y\mathrm{d}x$ for $x\ge 0$ and $x<0$, respectively.

I hope this is correct, so far. I cannot however, find a closed antiderivative of the double integral. I ever end up with the integralexponentialfunction.

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The region you integrate on is as below enter image description here

And you want to integrate with respect to $x$ first, since it is impossible to integrate the other way. So the integral can be written as

$$\int_0^a\int_{-y}^y f \,dx dy.$$

Can you continue from here?