Simpler way to maximize control variables?

[paues]

I have two control variables (containing date values) and I want to create a third control variable for the maximum of the two control variables. How do I do this? It should be really easy, but here I am, fiddling with matrices. Is there no simpler way than what I come up with below?

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!D1=@dateval("2012Q2","YYYY[Q]Q") !D2=@dateval("2012Q3","YYYY[Q]Q") matrix(2,1) Ds Ds.fill !D1, !D2 matrix mx=@cmax(Ds) !Dmax=mx(1,1) Delete Ds mx

(For the sake of simplicity I have explicitly written the dates in question. In the program I am trying to write I, of course, do not know which of the two date values is the larger.)

[trubador]

Here is an other way (not necessarily simpler, though):

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if @dateval("2012Q2","YYYY[Q]Q") > @dateval("2012Q3","YYYY[Q]Q") then !dmax = @dateval("2012Q2","YYYY[Q]Q") else !dmax = @dateval("2012Q3","YYYY[Q]Q") endif

[paues]

Thank you for that. But although I neglected to mention it in my original post I am looking for a solution that can be scaled to maximize over any number of values.

[trubador]

How about this one?

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!dmax=0 !d = @dateval("2012Q2","YYYY[Q]Q") if !d > !dmax then !dmax = !d endif

[paues]

Together with a loop that could be the one :D Should have thought about it myself, now that I see it. I was struggling to find something native to EViews - odd that there does not seem to be anything.