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Hi Guys,
first of all, I hope I'm posting to the right list, if not, my apologies
(while I'm apologising, let me apologise for my company disclaimer, which I
cant change..:-).
Its a basic perl question, but I'm a relative newbie, so bear with me if the
answer is obvious..
I'm running a for loop that compares two variables. if one if bigger than
the other, it gets made the new "big" variable, until the array is
exhausted.. the problem is, perl seems to be treating the numbers rather
weird.."11" for example, seems to be treated as "1", so is less than most
numbers etc...
I've posted the code below, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
$check = 0;
$biggest = 0;
for $check (@results) {
if ($check gt $biggest) {
$biggest = $check;
}
}
print "Largest Die roll is $biggest\n";
and the array (in this case) was:
@results = (
'7',
'7',
'5',
'11'
);
my printing output gives me:
Largest Die roll is 7
11 5 7 7
cheers all
John Constable Technical Support Specialist
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