"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
What I want to do, is find out the largest "streak" of digits. In
the
above example, the streak would be 5, because there are 5 tails
flips in
a row.
I would loop through the list with a for loop, keeping track of the
last value seen and the current count. If the current value is the
same as the last, increment the count; if it is different, reset the
count.
You need to store the count before resetting it since you want
to know the largest value of count over the list. Or at least keep a
separate max variable that you update if count > max.
But as Kent also said the easiest way is probably to just track the
runs and their count as the data is generated rather than waiting
till the end and post-processing the results.
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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