Am 10 May 2006 um 22:36 hat Neilen Marais geschrieben:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to find the largest item in a list. I.e. [5,3,7,2] -> 7.
>
> It seems the max() routine doesn't work on lists, but expects you to
> pass
> the items in individually. Is
>
> lreduce(max, [5,3,7,2]);
>
> the best way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks
> Neilen
>
Hi Neilen,
just enter apply(max, [5,3,7,2]);
The function apply does what you want.
Volker