>
> Seems this has already been proposed by Nikola!! I like this
> approach as it's in the spirit of Perl and a one liner :)!!
>
> > Why not use sort on the array and get the last element
> which would be the highest??
>
> > my @sorted = sort @list;
> > my @sorted = sort
> > my $max = $sorted[$#sorted];
>
> > Wouldn't this work ? I a not sure about the speed though!!
Doesn't work because of how it sorts, go ahead and try it:
but this will work:
@sorted = sort { $a <=> $b } @list;
my $max = $sorted[$#sorted];
>
>
>
> >Here is a routing that i use:
> --
> > @nums = (5,6,3,7,2,9,12,46);
> >$rv = min(\@nums);
> > print "$rv\n";
>
> >ub min {
> > my($num) = @_;
> > my ($max) = shift @$num;
> > foreach $i (@$num) {
> > $max = $i if $max < $i;
> > }
> > return($max);
> >}
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Konrad Foerstner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:38 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: find biggest number
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Im looking for a method to exact the
> > biggest element (number) out of array.
> > Does anyone know a function for that?
> >
> > cu
> >
> > Konrad
> >
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