Getting the biggest and smallest value from an array

[adder]

Hi guys,

I've got an array with X,Y coordinates. There will be variable number of coordinates depending on the object.

This is what the array looks like:

12, 34, 13, 42, 18, 43, 20, 36

The odd possition is always X and the even position is Y. In other words:
Xs are: 12, 13, 18, 20
Ys are: 34, 42, 43, 36

I'm looking for an output like this:

$Xmax = 20
$Xmin = 12
$Ymax = 43
$Ymin = 34

What would be the most sensible way of doing this?

[jatar_k]

you could quickly loop though the array and put them into 2 other arrays, one for x values and one for y values

then it's easy enough to sort [php.net] each array then just grab the first and last value of each

[adder]

@jatar_k, good idea, thank you. I ended up splitting it like this:

foreach($myarray as $key => $value)
{

if ($key&1)
{
unset($myarray[$key]);
}
}

$minX = min($myarray);
$maxX = max($myarray);

[swa66]

Efficiency ... since you already walk through it: remember the lowest and highest yourself.

[astupidname]

Or, to present another way, without looping:

$a = array(12, 34, 7.68966, -34.876, -65.8, -54.214, 87, 2);
preg_match_all('/(-?\d+\.?\d*)@(-?\d+\.?\d*)/', implode('@', $a), $coords);
//$coords[1] will be array containing all 'x' coordinates
//$coords[2] will be array containing all 'y' coordinates
$xmin = min($coords[1]);
$xmax = max($coords[1]);
$ymin = min($coords[2]);
$ymax = max($coords[2]);

echo "xmin = $xmin<br>xmax = $xmax<br>ymin = $ymin<br>ymax = $ymax";