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From:
Andrea Holstein
Date:
February 13, 2002 04:33
Subject:
Re: finding max value
Message ID:
pan.2002.02.13.13.17.49.407411.1611@yahoo.de
In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0202122117250.11490-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net> wrote "Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan"
<jeffp@crusoe.net>:
>>I have a set of functions that give numeric results, and I need to compare them and choose the
>>maximal value. Is there any simple way of finding max?
>
> Go through them one at a time, and keep track of the largest value:
>
> my $max = $values[0];
> for (@values) {
> $max = $_ if $_ > $max;
> }
>
Don't think about it,
just use the CPAN module List::Util.
Then you only have to write
my $max = max @values;
Greetings,
Andrea
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