How can I find the largest value in an table/array?

Asked Jul 25, 2019200 views1 answers

Lets say I have a table that looks like this

local t = {"x","yy","xyz"}

As you can see xys is larget than xand yy, but I want a function that i can use that automatically finds the length of the largest value in a table/array

AnonymousJul 25, 2019

1 answer

✓ Accepted answer

Perhaps this is not the most efficient approach (it seems like there always is a better way), but you can use a variable to keep track of the longest item you've found so far while looping through the table and checking the lengths of each item.

Example:

local longest = 0

for i, v in pairs(t) do
    if #v > longest then
        longest = #v
    end
end

Let me know if this helps!

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