On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 01:42 PM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Apr 11, Bryan R Harris said:
>
>> $someVar = max(@listofvalues);
>>
>> Is there a function in perl like this?
>
> You could use the List::Util module (from CPAN). Or, you could write your
> own:
>
> sub max {
> my $max = shift;
> for (@_) { $max = $_ if $_ > $max }
> return $max;
> }
>
i like:
$max=0;
map {$max=$_ if($_>$max)} @listofvalues;
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