> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wulff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 02 July 2003 21:26
>
> Sorry for the multiple post!! Apparently when pasting I hit
> some magic send
> key.I'd like to calculate the largest member of this array
> without taking
> into
> account the first value which is obvisouly not numeric.
>
> So far this is how I'm doing it, but sometimes I get returned
> a month for
> the max.
>
> $high = end(array_reduce($cdata,
> create_function('$a, $b',
> 'return array(max(array_reduce($a, "max"),
> array_reduce($b, "max")));')));
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [0] => Jan-99
> [1] => 6399.36
> [2] => 6132.71
> [3] => 2242.20
> [4] => 53.27
> [5] => 87.34
> )
>
> [1] => Array
> (
> [0] => Feb-99
> [1] => 5754.72
> [2] => 3964.93
> [3] => 6145.98
> [4] => 693.32
> [5] => 23.80
> )
> )
Would this do?
$high = NULL;
foreach ($cdata as $month):
$a_high = max(array_slice($month, 1));
$high = is_null($high) ? $a_high : max($high, $a_high);
endforeach;
Cheers!
Mike
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