Question

I have an NSArray of double objects…. I currently I have a for loop to go through the NSArray and average them. I am looking for a way to determine the minimum and maximum values in the NSArray and have no idea where to start… below is the current code I have to get the average.

NSArray *TheArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:self.fetchedResultsController.fetchedObjects];
    int TotalVisitors = [TheArray count];
    double aveRatingSacore = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < TotalVisitors; i++)
        {
            Visitor *object = [TheArray objectAtIndex:i];
            double two = [object.rating doubleValue];
            aveRatingSacore = aveRatingSacore + two;
        }

        aveRatingSacore = aveRatingSacore/TotalVisitors;

Any help, suggestions or code would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Setup two doubles, one for min, one for max. Then in each iteration, set each to the min/max of the existing min/max and the current object in the iteration.

double theMin;
double theMax;
BOOL firstTime = YES;
for(Visitor *object in TheArray) {
  if(firstTime) {
    theMin = theMax = [object.rating doubleValue];
    firstTime = NO;
    coninue;
  }
  theMin = fmin(theMin, [object.rating doubleValue]);
  theMax = fmax(theMax, [object.rating doubleValue]);
}

The firstTime bit is only to avoid false-positives involving zero.