How do I get a min and max value from a file

[donato_smith]

The task at hand is to read in a file with a list of test scores and names and produce the min and max values in separate labels from that file. The name associated with the min and max scores must also be produced

The file is as follows:
Ann 45
Betty 55
Carl 75
David 82
Erin 77
Frank 95
George 92
Harry 85
Ian 87
John 74
Karen 65
Larry 86
Mary 88
Nancy 90
Olive 93
Peter 68
Quin 62
Randy 76
Sarah 78
Thom 80

[Shaggy Hiker]

There's no getting around it, just because it's a file. You can't just go to the file and get the information in any fashion that is even vaguely efficient.

Just read the whole file into memory, using something like ReadAllLines. You can then split each line on space to get an array of strings holding the names in the first element and the scores in the second element. Those scores will be strings, though, so comparing them would be bad, since < and > are defined for strings...they just won't do what you want. Therefore, you have to turn the strings into numbers to do the comparison.

There are many ways to accomplish all of those steps. The key is that you have to read the whole file into memory, first.

[TysonLPrice]

Hmmm...What if two people have the same min or max score? How are you going to handle that?