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Find row and column corresponding to smallest value in a table

iiyoob
6 - Meteoroid

I am working with a data set of N locations including lat long info for each location.  For this dataset, I am trying to find the shortest distance between two locations.

 

I have been able to create an N X N crosstab with distance information.  Now, I need to find the smallest value in the crosstab (while ignoring 0 values), and then determine the corresponding row and column.  Note that my list of locations is very large.

 

As an example, I have attached a 10 location crosstab.  In this example, the smallest distance is 2 units between locations D and J.  A similar result is what I would like to get from my large dataset as well.

 

 

Thanks

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iiyoob
6 - Meteoroid

I was able to solve this problem by leaving the reverting to a table (not crosstab), and then Summarize by minimum distance, followed by Sort Ascending and finally Selecting 1st record.

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