On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Aaron Lawson wrote:
> I have a perl problem that seems like it should have a simple and
> easy solution but that I can't figure out. I am trying to determine which
> of a set of scalars has the highest numeric value and then to get the NAME
> of the scalar (not the value) to use this to tell a user what kind of file
> they're dealing with. Basically, the output of a long series of
> calculations that analyzes newswire ends up with 5 numeric values (these
> are scores for each domain): $financial, $sports, $foreigh_affairs,
> $politics, $human_interest. These five scalars are floating point numbers,
> as I said, I'm just looking for some way of figuring out which has the
> highest value and returning the name of the variable.
Sure, just sort the values and put them into an array:
@sorted_values = sort { $a <=> $b } @unsorted;
$a and $b are automatically assigned -- don't declare them or you will get
errors.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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