Finding the highest variable

[dove...@yahoo.co.uk]

Im programming a card game app and need some help. In the app you play against a computer and I wish for the computer (the program) to make the best move each time from the 12 cards in play. Each card has a variable which denotes how far the move will go (from 1 to 8), the variable is say cpucard1move=3, cpucard2move=7 etc ... now for the computer to make the best move in each turn I need to find the highest variable from the list of 12 variable cpucard1move to cpucard12move but the only way I can think of doing this is to get app inventor to go through each variable against each variable which is going to be very long winded ie..

if cpucard1move>cpucard2move and cpucard3move and etc...

Is there a simpler way to get a result from a collection of variables ?

Thanks for any help, ive search the forums but cant find anything.

[Taifun]

instead of n variables, use a list to store the values

use a for each item in list loop to find the highest value

• How to work with Lists by Saj
• How to work with Lists and Lists of lists (pdf) by appinventor.org

Taifun

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[dove...@yahoo.co.uk]

The cards i have in my program are created using a list and the variables in the cards are also in a list, i also have the lists to remove cards once played and to replenish the playing deck from the list replacing the card played. I did think whether using lists would work, im still not sure exactly how to find the highest value but i can see how 'for each item in list' would work so ill have a go.