How to get a specified number of local maxima?

I have a signal and I only want the top two or three local maxima, I don't want the 5000 maxima that the findpeaks() function gives me. Is there a way to get this? Thanks.

[Paolo]

Have you tried specifying NPeaks? Check the documentation

[Chinwe Orie]

No I haven't. Just did, it works. Thank you!

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[Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan Fahome]

You can use this function. I used this for taking top 2 frequency spectra maxima. You can find the min with the same logic.

**Update:Replace max(j) with val(j) in the function