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#1 $max = ''; foreach(@array){ if($_ > $max){ $max = $_; } } #2 @array = sort{$a <=> $b}@array; $max = $array[-1]; -----Original Message----- From: Peter Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:17 AM To: Konrad Foerstner; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: find biggest number (new try :) ) At 06:42 PM 7/16/02 +0200, Konrad Foerstner wrote: >sorry a small but important mistake > >Im looking for a method to extract the >biggest element (number) out of array. >Does anyone know a function for that? use List::Util qw(max); print max(@input); -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]