Find highest integer out of 6 existing

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

WHich way would be the simpliest to find which variable out of 6 would hold the biggest integer ?
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[travs69]

You could loop through each of them and compare them to each other till you get the biggest one, or you could put them in an array and sort them. Do you just need the biggest value or do you need to know which variable contains the biggest value?

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[MoshiachNow]

I actualy need the ma\name of the variable with the biggest value.

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[travs69]

I guess I should say.. do you really need the name.. or can you return a new variable that contains the highest value?

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[prex1]

...or you want a reference to the variable containing the maximum?
It all depends on how the variables are stored (array? predefined constant names?...) and how you use the result.

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[KevinADC]

use a hash to store the numbers then you can easily get the name of the key with the value you are looking for. Any other way is probably going to be a bad idea.

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[MoshiachNow]

thanks

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