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Find the Minimum number value in table
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| Tkl1129
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| Sat 16 Feb 2013 02:32 AM (UTC) |
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| Hi, as I'd read those help files, the only function to find the minimum value is "math.min", but however the using method is "math.min(v1,v2,v3,v4)", I wanna ask that how to apply this function or any other method to calculate in table?
Case:
a = {"6","5","3","2","8"}
how to get "b = 2" since 2 is the minimum value in the table?
# the value numbers of table is not fixed, maybe sometime up to over 100 values, so cannot put in hard code.
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| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #1 on Sat 16 Feb 2013 04:26 AM (UTC) |
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a = {"6","5","3","2","8"}
result = 9999999 -- some large number
for k, v in ipairs (a) do
result = math.min (result, v)
end -- for
print ("minimum was", result)
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