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bogfrog wrote:

>> I have a variable which is an array of all positive 
>> numbers. I am trying to find the minimum value in the
>> varibale other than zero.

> min(my_array(find(my_array > 0)))

The find() step is unnecessary

min(my_array(my_array > 0))

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