How tho find the max value in a struct?

Hi,

I made a 1x1 struct with 5 fields. The struct consists of a column of fields and a column of values. How do I find the highest value? And if found, the field that belongs to this highest value?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

[maxval, maxidx] = structfun(@max, YourStructure);

fn = fieldnames(YourStructure);
which_field_had_max = fn{maxidx};

Answer 2

[Ameer Hamza]

Something like this

s.a = 1;
s.b = 9;
s.c = 5;

names = fieldnames(s);
[val, idx] = max(struct2array(s));
max_fieldname = names(idx);

Result

>> val
val =
     9
>> max_fieldname
max_fieldname =
  1×1 cell array
    {'b'}