Highest and lowest numbers in a string

[Anon]

Hi,

I have a string with numbers in - e.g:

"1-11" or "18-25, 32-35"

How can I extract the highest and lowest numbers from the string?

TIA

Paulo

[leatherback]

Hi,
Are your numbers seperated by a "-" or is this a part of the number? For the first: I am not sure wether the settype works on an array. If it does, I'd say this should work:

$data ="1-11-23-5";
$pieces = explode("-", $data);
$number = settype($pieces, "integer");
$max = max($number);
$min = min($number);

[stevena]

I may be wrong, but I think you can compare strings and that compares their ASCii values (or that might just be JavaScript). For instance, the string "1" would be equal to 49, while "11" would be equal to 98. If that is true, then this script should work:

$data="1-11";
$data_pieces=explode("-",$data);

if($data_pieces[0]>$data_pieces[1]) {
$max=$data_pieces[0];
$min=$data_pieces[1];
}
else {
$max=$data_pieces[1];
$min=$data_pieces[0];
}

Hope that helps!

Happy coding! 🙂