Checking Highest Value

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Hey Everyone,

Quick Question:
How can i loop on every IntValue and check what is the highest value of the loop (in paris)

Thanks.

2

do you know the highest value?

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3

I loop on every value in the folder but how can i check what is the highest value

local function CountBid()
	for i, v in pairs(game.ServerStorage.Bids:GetChildren()) do
		
	end
end
4

do you know what the highest value is?

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5

Since if it’s an array, you should use ipairs to have everything in order.

In that case you can check if i equals the length of the array:

for i, v in ipairs(array) do

    if i == #array then
    
        --max val

    end

end
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6

No, I don’t know what is the highest value

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It’s Folder with IntValue of every player

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local values = {}
for _,x in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetChildren()) do
    if not x:FindFirstChild("IntValue") then return end
    table.insert(values, x.Value)
end
for _,value in ipairs(values) do
    if value == #values then
        -- you have your max val, which is the variable **value**
        print(tostring(value))
    end
end

I added off of @TheCarbyneUniverse 's reply.

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9

Why shouldn’t you use in pairs?

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You can use pairs, nothing wrong in that. In fact, when you aren’t sure if certain values in-between are nil, then it’s safer to use pairs.

local arr = {'1', 19, true, nil, 'hello', 109882}

for _, v in pairs(arr) do
	
	print(v)
	
end

--print everything except nil

for _, v in ipairs(arr) do
	
	print(v)
	
end

--print everything UP TO nil ('1', 19, true)

So, ipairs stops when it hits nil. But, in the case of arrays where you know that no values are nil in-between (such as in this case with :GetChildren()), it’d be better to use ipairs as it’s more specialized. Plus, it runs it in order.

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11

Interesting, but pairs should run in order…

local Table = {'a','b','c'}

for i,v in pairs(Table) do
    print(v)
end

-- Output:
-- a
-- b
-- c

…right?

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