Greetings. I find myself in need of a minimum() function. This is different from the min() function, which operates across records; what I need is to be able to say: UPDATE foo SET newcol = minimum(field1, field2, field3, field4); >From what I can tell there is no such beast built in, but I would be happy to be proved wrong. Anyway... I can write such a function easily enough in perl, probably something like: my $min=$_[0]; $min > $_ and $min = $_ foreach @_; return $min; but I can't determine how to allow varying numbers of arguments to be passed to a function. That is, sometimes I need minimum(arg1, arg2) but sometimes it's minimum(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5), etc. Thanks- Andy Perrin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
