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RE: st: Column and row maximums


From   "Nick Winter" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Column and row maximums
Date   Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:34:07 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: Column and row maximums
> 
> 
> Sorry if I was ambiguous; from the datasheet
> 
> 	> A	B	C	D	E	F
> 	> 1	2	3	4	5	6
> 	> 2	8	5	4	9	6	
> 	> 3	5	7	8	6	1
> 	> 7	4	5	6	8	1
> 	> 2	4	6	4	1	6
> 
> I would simply like Stata to return something of the sort:
> 
> "Highest value in E was" 9 "and the corresponding value in B was" 8
> 

Ignorring ties:

	gsort -E
	di "Highest value in E was " E[1] " and the corresponding value
in B was " B[1]

--Nick Winter
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