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On Jul 16, Konrad Foerstner said:
>On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:48:55 -0400
>"Shishir K. Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> my @sorted = sort @list;
>> my $max = $sort[$#sorted];
>>
>> Wouldn't this work ? I a not sure about the speed though!!
>
>I think this is the easiest way!
You need to sort it like so:
sort { $a <=> $b } @list
because plain sort() does ASCIIbetical, which puts "10" before "2".
my ($max) = sort { $b <=> $a } @list;
my $max = (sort { $a <=> $b } @list)[-1];
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