Re: Help with Numbers

Thank you very much, I did not know sort would work this way. Makes complete sense now though. Thansk again I will give it a shot. "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0210021248210.27901-100000@www.lerdorf.com... > Sort the arrays and pick off the first and last elements. > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Christopher J. Crane wrote: > > > I am looking for a way to find the highest 5 and lowest 5 numbers within 300 > > or so numbers. Here is what I have so far... > > > > $Tickers = array(); > > $Current = array(); > > > > > > // SQL QUERY TO GET TICKERS > > MSSQL_CONNECT($HostName,$UserName,$Password); > > mssql_select_db($DBName) or DIE("Table unavailable"); > > > > $Results = MSSQL_QUERY("SELECT CompanyName,Ticker FROM Company WHERE > > Ticker != ''"); > > > > $RowCount = MSSQL_NUM_ROWS($Results); > > print "$RowCount Number of Tickers<br>\n"; > > > > if($RowCount != 0) { > > for ($i = 0; $Field = MSSQL_FETCH_ARRAY($Results); ++$i) { > > array_push($Tickers, $Field["Ticker"]); } > > } > > else { print "There was nothing selected in the Query, it may have been > > bad."; } > > > > > > foreach($Tickers as $Ticker) { Get Last price on the ticker from database. > > and... array_push($Current, $Value); } > > > > Now that I have the values in an array I would like to pull out the five > > highest and the 5 lowest. Is there a way to do that....if not, is there > > another way to do what I am looking for. I keep thinking I would have to > > compare each ticker against all the others to verify it's standing...and > > that seems like a lot of work. > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >