On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, shirley wrote:

>   I've got a program running and extracting minimum values from the data
> base, but if there is no data available for the day on the data base, the
> value -999.9 is reflected. so how do I tell my program to skip the -999.9
> and then select the minimum value out of the data base.

To skip while looping:

next if ($value == -999.9);

To keep the min value of $value:

my $min;

$min = $value < $min ? $value : $min;


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