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2. Re: Sorting numbers

• Posted by Jeffrey Fielding <JJProg at cyberbury.net> Mar 21, 2001
• 463 views
• Last edited Mar 22, 2001

If that's all you need to do, you don't even need to sort them. Here's how I 
would go about it:

constant INPUTS = {ab1,ab2,ab3,ab4,ab5,ab6,ab7,ab8,
	bc1,bc2,bc3,bc4,bc5,bc6,bc7,bc8,
	ca1,ca2,ca3,ca4,ca5,ca6,ca7,ca8}
global procedure onClick_sparebutton()
	atom sumtotal, max, value
	sumtotal = 0
	max = 0
	for i = 1 to 24 do
		value = getNumber(INPUTS[i])
		sumtotal += value
		if value > max then
			max = value
		end if
	end for
	sumtotal -= max		-- Subtract the largest number
end procedure

Jeff Fielding

On Wednesday 21 March 2001 22:10, you wrote:
>
>
> Hello all,  I would first like to say thanks for the great forum and such a
> fun programming language.  Again, I am a beginner and would like to get
> some help.  I am sure that this is very simple for most of you guys, but I
> am stuck.  What I am trying to do is input 24 numbers and sum them
> together. Once I have the total, I need to figure out the largest number
> and subtract it from the total.  I figured the best way to do it is to sort
> the numbers from least to greatest and grab the last number, however this
> is my problem. Here is the code that I was working on before I got stuck.
>
>
>
> global procedure onClick_sparebutton()
> atom AB1, AB2, AB3, AB4, AB5, AB6, AB7, AB8
> atom  BC1, BC2, BC3, BC4, BC5, BC6, BC7, BC8
> atom CA1, CA2, CA3, CA4, CA5, CA6, CA7, CA8
> atom sumAB, sumBC, sumCA, sumtotal
> atom sparenumber
> object y
>
>   AB1 = getNumber( ab1 )
>   AB2 = getNumber( ab2 )
>   AB3 = getNumber( ab3 )
>   AB4 = getNumber( ab4 )
>   AB5 = getNumber( ab5 )
>   AB6 = getNumber( ab6 )
>   AB7 = getNumber( ab7 )
>   AB8 = getNumber( ab8 )
>   BC1 = getNumber( bc1 )
>   BC2 = getNumber( bc2 )
>   BC3 = getNumber( bc3 )
>   BC4 = getNumber( bc4 )
>   BC5 = getNumber( bc5 )
>   BC6 = getNumber( bc6 )
>   BC7 = getNumber( bc7 )
>   BC8 = getNumber( bc8 )
>   CA1 = getNumber( ca1 )
>   CA2 = getNumber( ca2 )
>   CA3 = getNumber( ca3 )
>   CA4 = getNumber( ca4 )
>   CA5 = getNumber( ca5 )
>   CA6 = getNumber( ca6 )
>   CA7 = getNumber( ca7 )
>   CA8 = getNumber( ca8 )
>
> sumAB = AB1 + AB2 + AB3 + AB4 + AB5 + AB6 + AB7 + AB8
> sumBC = BC1 + BC2 + BC3 + BC4 + BC5 + BC6 + BC7 + BC8
> sumCA = CA1 + CA2 + CA3 + CA4 + CA5 + CA6 + CA7 + CA8
> sumtotal = sumAB + sumBC + sumCA
>
>
> y=sort({AB1,AB2,AB3,AB4,AB5,AB6,AB7,AB8,BC1,BC2,BC3,BC4,BC5,BC6,BC7,BC8,CA1
>,CA2,CA3,CA4,CA5,CA6,CA7,CA8})
>
>
>
> I relize it is very imcomplete, but I just don't understand the sort
> function
>
>
>