From: William Crawford <wccrawford@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T00:17:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum value of hash

Bart Braem wrote:
> A very simple question: what's the best way to get the maximum value of 
> a
> hash? Currently I have something like:
> 
> max = 0
> hash.each_value do |value|
>         if (value > max )
>                 max = value
>         end
> end
> 
> But it does not feel ruby... Same question for sum, but I guess the 
> answer
> will be similar?
> 
> Bart

hash = Hash.new
hash['a']=4
=> 4
hash['b']=10
=> 10
hash['c']=7
=> 7
hash.max
=> ["c", 7]
hash.values.max
=> 10

That?

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