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Re: How to get 2nd highest value from an array?

by GrandFather (Saint)
on Dec 13, 2005 at 17:37 UTC ( [id://516460]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to How to get 2nd highest value from an array?

use warnings;
use strict;

my @list = (4, 7, 1, 3, 2, 9);
my $second = (sort @list)[-2];
print $second;

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7

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Re^2: How to get 2nd highest value from an array?
by Fletch (Bishop) on Dec 13, 2005 at 19:42 UTC

    Of course if @list has only one element you may get an unexpected result . . . :)

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