finding lowest number in a sequence

[phence]

Lets say I have four variables each hoding a number 1 to 6. Now these number are randomly generated, so there may be a few numbers repeated.

i was wondering how i could automatically find the variable with the lowet value so i could exclude that variable from the sequence. and if there are multipul numbers with the lowest value it would only drop one of them.

Example:

// Sequence of Random Numbers
$sequence = $one . $two . $three . $four

$one = 3;
$two = 5;
$three = 2; <-- lowest value
$four = 5;

// Some type of function to find and drop lowest number

// then produce new sequence
$sequence = $one . $two . $four

Is there any type of function that can do this? or how can i code a function to find and drop the lowest number???

All help is appreciated.

[Mordecai]

Writing some sort of DND stat roller? 🙂

$sequence = array($one,$two,$three,$four);
sort($sequence,SORT_NUMERIC);
$sequence[0] = $lowestvalue;

This works because the lowest number will always come first whenever an array is sorted.

And if you want to rewrite the array without the lowest value:

for ($i=1;$i<count($sequence);$i++) {
  $newsequence[] = $sequence[$i];
}

This just loops through every value in the array (except the lowest) and then writes the values to a new array.

[phence]

awsome!!! you da man!