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!!
>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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