Finding 2nd and 3rd largest integers in a set

[SOBETed]

Hello,

I have a series of variables that contain integers var1, var2, .... and would like to find the largest, 2nd largest, 3rd largest, etc.

Thank you.

[Masonjar13]

You would need to append the variables first, but Sort is probably what you're looking for. If you really want to keep them separate, consider making a function that will iterate through all the variables and compare. You can get the whole list of vars into a function by either using an object or variadic parameter.

[iseahound]

If you map the integer into an AHK array, then map the name of the integer as the value, you can enumerate through the array and get the variables in order.

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var1 := 67
var2 := 45
var3 := 77
var4 := 04

array := []

loop 4
    array[var%A_Index%] := "var" . A_Index

MsgBox % "1st largest: " array.MaxIndex() " is " array.pop()
MsgBox % "2nd largest: " array.MaxIndex() " is " array.pop()
MsgBox % "3rd largest: " array.MaxIndex() " is " array.pop()

The reason this works is because AutoHotkey will auto sort objects in alphabetical and numeric order. (Using a binary tree I think.)