On Feb 12, Hans Holtan said:

>I have a set of functions that give numeric results, and I need to 
>compare  them and choose the maximal value. Is there any simple way 
>of finding max?

Go through them one at a time, and keep track of the largest value:

  my $max = $values[0];
  for (@values) {
    $max = $_ if $_ > $max;
  }

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