Hi all,

So, I have lists formatted as a series of varying-length strings each ending in a negative number, such as:
[this that and -32(
and
[but 35that -23(
etc
I have these coming into my patch at various times, and what I need is a way to check each list as it arrives, and to only pass it if it ends in a negative number smaller than that in any of the previous lists. There may at times be two or three such lists arriving at once, so any solution needs to dynamically compare multiple lists and output the list which ends in the smallest number. Any thoughts on how this could be achieved?

@gsagostinho ah, for some reason when I redownloaded it, the patch worked fine! Thanks so much for that, you solved some serious headscratching I was having!

Glad to hear that! Cheers, Gilberto

One last thing - if I wanted to flip it so that it output the highest number, rather than lowest, what would need to be changed? I've had a quick play and can't quite get that functionality to work.

You have to change the [<] for [>] (then if the last element is larger the lit gets passed) and also the [1000( for [-1000(, so that the first list will for sure have a last element larger than -1000. Does this make sense to you?

Hmm, yeah, that's what I thought - I've attached the patch I just edited, can you tell me if this is acting right to you?list3.pd

Hi,

I just made a small improvement in the patch; there were two patch cords coming from the middle outlet of [list split], and the order in which they were created matter for the patch to properly work. So I added a [t f f] to avoid that, and now all is good. See:

lists-corrected.pd

Cheers!
Gilberto

Ah, excellent, that does it! Thank you again!