MINVAL, Mask Condition Not Met, 2147483647

[Ernie_P_1]

Hi,

I want to find the minimum value of an array only from those elements greater than zero. Suppose no elements are greater than zero and there are no values to use when calculating the MINVAL. How do I prevent 2147483647 from being returned? Psuedo code below:

NUM = 999999 !DEFAULT VALUE
NUM = MINVAL(MY_ARRAY, MASK=MY_ARRAY.GT.0)

NUM gets set to 2147483647. I'd like it to retain 999999. How can I do this?

I suppose the following workaround would be sufficient, but I don't want to do this:

IF(SUM(MY_ARRAY).GT.0)THEN
NUM = MINVAL(MY_ARRAY,MASK=MY_ARRAY.GT.0)
ELSE
NUM = 999999
END IF

Thanks in advance for your help.
Ernie P.

[Steven_L_Intel1 · Accepted solution]

You can't prevent MINVAL from returning HUGE(0) when the set of values being tested is empty - that's what the standard requires. It has to return something.

You might do something like this:

NUM = MINVAL(MY_ARRAY,MASK=MY_ARRAY > 0)
IF (NUM == HUGE(NUM) NUM = 999999