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Question by connormality · Feb 12, 2013 at 07:06 PM · javascriptlistmax

How do I find the greatest value in a list?

I have a list "heights" containing items as floats. I want to set a variable "highestValue" that updates every frame and returns the value of the greatest value in the list.

Floats are constantly being added and removed from the list, but I want to search through the list for the highest value every frame. Does anyone know the best way I could do that.

I'm using unity Javascript if it matters.

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Answer by Bunny83 · Feb 12, 2013 at 07:53 PM

Since you have floats you can use Mathf.Max and pass the list converted to an array.

 var myList : List.< float >;
 
 // [...]
 
 var maxValue = Mathf.Max(myList.ToArray());
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avatar image connormality · Feb 13, 2013 at 12:52 AM 0
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Thanks so much, this is perfect!

avatar image TruffelsAndOranges · Dec 18, 2014 at 03:31 PM 0
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The name 'List' does not denote a valid type ('not found'). Did you mean 'UnityEngine.Light'?

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@Friduric: This question is about the generic List type which is defined in the System.Collections.Generic namespace. So you have to import that namespace at the top of your script:

 // Unityscript
 import System.Collections.Generic;
 
 // C#
 using System.Collections.Generic;

See this wiki page for more details

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Like this?:

 #pragma strict
 
 @script ExecuteInEdit$$anonymous$$ode()
 
 import System.Collections.Generic;
 
 private var vignetting : Vignetting;
 
 // Settings. public var maxIntensity : float = 5.0; public var $$anonymous$$Intensity : float = 0.0;

I just get error: Assets/Scripts/Graphics/Image Effects/$$anonymous$$yScript.js(1,1): BCE0044: unexpected char: 0xFEFF.

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Answer by FL · Feb 12, 2013 at 07:22 PM

Use Array.Sort() and arrayName[arrayName.length-1].

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This is the best way.

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It's not really the "best way" since he don't want to sort the whole list. He just needs the greatest value.

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