How to find the highest number!?

[rickid]

Hi,

Does anyone know a command to find the higher number from a list of numbers?

Thanks,
Rik

[senocular]

Math.max() will find the highest of 2. If you have more than that, you'll have to do some looping and some if checks to see which is higher. Some examples can be found here:
http://proto.layer51.com

[rickid]

Thanks Senocular,

It's already looping over a wddx (xml) file. The following code returns all the numbers:

for(var a in wddxObj){
var number:String=wddxObj[a]['NUMBER']
trace(number)
}

I'll try Max.max() with that.

[mooska]

Maybe try with Array.sort() ?

[Sunny13]

To use Array.sort() you need to use an additional parameter also because it considers the data as string only even if it is numeric.... so try this....

var Arr = ["21", "22", "5", "34", "87", "56"];
Arr.sort();
trace("Not Desired: "+Arr);
var Arr = ["21", "22", "5", "34", "87", "56"];
Arr.sort(Array.NUMERIC);
trace("Not Desired: "+Arr);
var Arr = [21, 22, 5, 34, 87, 7, 0.7, 56,-9];
Arr.sort(Array.NUMERIC);
trace(".......................");
trace("Desired : "+Arr);

[jharmon]

var highest:Number = 0;

for(var a in wddxObj){
var number:String=wddxObj[a]['NUMBER']
     if (number > highest){
          highest = number;
     }
}
trace(highest);

[rickid]

Thanks will try that!