arrayMax

arrayMax

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Returns the element with the maximum value of the array array. For more information about the maximum value of an array see sort.

Parameters

• array : Array in which the maximum value will be searched for.

Return

• element : Element with the maximum value.

TypeScript

In JavaScript, Math.max(...a) returns -Infinity on an empty array, where arrayMax returns null, and NaN as soon as an element is not a number — strings are not ordered alphabetically as in LeekScript. Above all, the ... spread is limited to about 65,000 arguments: beyond that, Math.max(...a) raises a RangeError. On a large array, write a.reduce((m, x) => x > m ? x : m) instead.

Python

In Python, max() raises a ValueError on an empty list, where arrayMax returns null: pass default to get that behaviour back, max(a, default=None). The comparison is Python's and not LeekScript's order: a list mixing numbers and strings raises a TypeError instead of ordering them. max also accepts a key, max(a, key=lambda e: e.life), and then returns the element, not the key's value.