anyone can help me how to find the oldest person in a room?

anyone can help me how to find the oldest person in a room?

i have write code :

old_name=name(max(age))

first access the max age the pass it to the name to get the name of oldest man.

is it true or not??

please guide me

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

No. This returns the persons age. You want the index, so you'll have to do this in 2 steps. See the documentation for max to see how to get the index of the max value.

[Cris LaPierre]

One thing to be aware of: if there are multiple people with max age, this will return the first one only. You can use logical indexing to extract all entries that match your condition

name(age==max(age)).

Answer 2

[Sami ullah]

i have solved this problem successfully

here is solution:

function old_name = find_max_age(name,age)
     [~,Id]=max(age)
     old_name=name(Id)
end