comparing integers

[firewire]

Hi people i need help on some java and im fairly new to this. I'm not sure how to compare 5 integers and to see which one is the smallest and which one is the biggest. They say use around 8 if statements, I want to do it using if statements but im not sure how to. Please get backt o me on this one thanks.

[Drain]

The best way is to use a for loop, but if they want you to use a bunch of if statements, that would work too. I would do something like this:

int highest = 0;
if (blah > highest)
     highest = blah;
if (blah2 > highest)
     ...

Same concept with lowest.

Edit: Or sort and pull the extremes

[firewire]

thanks a lot. I appreciate it.