Sorting numbers
- Posted by msuclay at hotmail.com Mar 21, 2001
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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 I relize it is very imcomplete, but I just don't understand the sort function