Finding smallest number in array?

[nullsystems 0]

Ello,

Question really quick...

How do you find the smallest number in an array?

_array = [a,b,c,d]

...told you it was quick lol.

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t1 = massy distance player

t2 = moddy distance player

t3 = eppy distance player

t4 = baggy distance player

_Array = [t1,t2,t3,t4];

_startNum = 900000;

_select = 0;

_find = 0;

_maxcount = count _Array;

#loop

_num = (_Array select _select)

?(_num < _startNum) : _Distance = _num;

_startNum = _num

_select = _select + 1

?_select < _maxcount: goto "loop"

I did have it working but I think I broke it, it always returns the last value in the array, not the smallest  

Thank you !

[nullsystems 0]

Aha! im a fool.

?(_num < _startNum) : _Distance = _num;

_startNum = _num

^ Should be:

?(_num < _startNum) : _Distance = _num; _startNum = _num

There we go, quick lesson on finding the least distance to a player out of an array lol

[zwobot 17]

Just loop through the array with a while. Assign the first element of the array as the smallest variable and compare each following element with the currently smallest element and update the smallest-value variable if necessary:

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_smallest = _array select 0;

_index = 0;

while(_index < count(_array))

{

if(_array select _index < _smallest)

{

_smallest = _array select _index;

};

};

That should be it.

[HitmanFF 6]

forEach will let you loop through an array very quickly.

Something like<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_smallest = _array select 0;

{if (_x < _smallest) {_smallest = _x;};} forEach _array;

[nullsystems 0]

Funny how you can come up with so many solutions for one problem...

Turns out they all worked in the end, even mine lol, thanks for the info guys.