How to print the second largest of a group of the numbers

Example: number : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

second largest = 9

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Rodrigo, you could use

 a = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10];
 b = max(setxor(a,max(a)));

Answer 2

[Guillaume]

Another option (which also allows you to pick any nth largest number):

a = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10];
ua = unique(a); %will sort a and remove duplicate
b = ua(end-1); %for the 2nd largest
b = ua(end-n+1); %for the nth largest