How to find the 3 highest peaks in an array? tia sal22

[Rick T]

How to find the 3 highest peaks in an array tia sal22

Greetings All

I have some example code that will find the min and max

peaks of an array.  How would I go about adjusting the

code to find the  3 highest peaks over the value 5?

 example code:

a = [1 2 2 3 2 1 1 5 1 17 17 17 15 20 1 4 5 2 5 7 4 7];

p = 1:length(a);

b = diff([inf a])~=0;

aa = a(b); pp = p(b);

maxima = pp(find(aa>[aa(2:end) inf] & aa>[inf aa(1:end-1)]))

a_valmax=a(maxima(:,:))

minima = pp(find(aa<[aa(2:end) -inf] & aa<[-inf aa(1:end-1)]))

a_valmin=a(minima(:,:))

tia sal22