How to find highest value in associative list?

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Jan 17 2012, 7:27 pm
How do you find the highest value in an associative list?
I want to be able to like

var/mob/Target
Target = HighestValue(List)
Jan 17 2012, 7:34 pm
look up max()
Jan 17 2012, 7:59 pm
In response to Metamorphman
Unfortunately max calculates the maximum of the associative keys, not the values associated with those keys. If you want to find the max of the values then you need to use a proc like this:

associative_max(list/L)
    var/max
    for(var/a in L)
        if(max == null || L[a] > max) max = L[a]
    return max