Find Max of Array of structures.

I have a 1x27 structure with five fields. I Need to calculate the country with the most gold medals. so I need to find the max of all the elements in the gold field. How do I do this. Thanks. My structure looks like: Countries, gold , silver, bronze

"AUS" 2 1 0

"AUT" 4 6 6

"BLR" 1 1 1

"CAN" 14 7 5

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Where S is your structure:

[cnt,idx] = max([S.gold]);
S(idx).Countries

A comma-separated list is used to concatenate all of the gold values into one vector:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/comma-separated-lists.html

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/320713-how-to-operate-on-comma-separated-lists

[Arno Claassens]

thanks that helps a lot

[Stephen23]

@Arno Claassens: please remember to accept the answer that helped you most!

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

Rather than storing your data in a struct array I'd consider storing it in a table array. The struct2table function may be able to help you convert your data into a table. If you made a table named medals with a variable named Gold then something like this should work:

maxGoldMedals = max(medals.Gold)