Re: How can I find the index of the biggest element in an array?

[salva]

and if what you need are the indexes for the $n biggest elements:

use Sort::Key::Top qw(nkeytop rnkeytop);

my @data = ( 100, -2, 5, 12, 1, 1, 6786, ...);

my @min_ix_n =  nkeytop { @data[$_] } $n => 0..$#data;
my @max_ix_n = rnkeytop { @data[$_] } $n => 0..$#data;