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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