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List/Set.min
The List/Set.min operator returns the smallest item in a List or Set data type attribute.
This is a replacement for/alternative to the min() operator.
Both the operators List/Set.min and List/Set.max use lexical comparison in most cases, but numeric comparison if the context is numeric (i.e. the reference is a Number-type attribute) and/or all list items are numbers. Thus:
$Width=("100;2;70").min
Since "Width" is numeric, min() will be return 2.
$Name=("100;2;70").min
Since the attribute "Name" is a string, .min will return 100.
If you don't have a set, create one on the fly:
$MyMin = collect_if(all,$MyNum>0,$MyNum).min
$MyMin = collect(descendants,$Modified).min
This allows export via ^value^:
^value(collect(descendants,$Modified).min)^
When using Date-type data bear in mind that the unset Date default is "never" and that "never' is always before (i.e. less than) any set date. So to use .min with dates, filter out the unset values:
$MyMin = collect_if(descendants,($Modified!="never"),$Modified).min
To use count() with a list of items that are attributes or expressions, use list():
Works: $MyNum = list(4+2,9+6).min (output: 6)
For more complex examples, where list items are action code expressions, it may be necessary to use eval() to wrap each list item expression e.g. list(eval(expressionA),eval(expressionB)).