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"For" Loop to find the lowest price in an array of bars on a chart

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[2015-09-17 22:45:31]
User126996 - Posts: 30
I'm trying to find the lowest price in an array of bars on the chart. I'm using a pointer that is in the SCInputRef to determine how many bars or indices to look back.



if (sc.SetDefaults)
{

PivotLength.Name = "Pivot Length";
PivotLength.SetInt(5);
PivotLength.SetIntLimits(1, MAX_STUDY_LENGTH);


return;
}

SCDateTime LowDT;
int Arr[] = { sc.BaseData[SC_LOW][sc.Index - PivotLength.GetInt()] };
int i;
int Low = Arr[0];

for (i = 0; i >= sc.BaseData[SC_LOW][sc.Index - PivotLength.GetInt()]; i++)
{
if (Arr[i] < Low)
  {
   Arr[i] = Low;
   Low = Arr[i];
   LowDT = sc.BaseDateTimeIn[sc.Index - PivotLength.GetInt()];
  }
}


Can you give some advice to where I'm going wrong? I'm new to the platform. It's quality though!
[2015-09-18 01:10:40]
ejtrader - Posts: 688
Probably built-in sc functions might be better for what you are trying to do unless you wanted a custom version of it.

sc.GetLowest()
sc.GetIndexOfLowestValue()
[2015-09-19 10:33:53]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
The answer given in post #2 is the same answer we would have given.
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[2015-09-23 00:02:57]
User126996 - Posts: 30
ejtrader and Sierra Chart support thanks for the help! I didn't initially see the sc function.

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