Max in an array

Hi,

Would you please let me know the efficient way (different ways) to get the
max or nth largest element in an array

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> Would you please let me know the efficient way (different ways) to
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> max or nth largest element in an array
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Hi,

Well to be honest this is an algorithm question. But one of them is
using built in functions or a loop and a temp value or binary search.
But note that perl does have his own order for arrays so it's good
practice to order the array first. Although this only applies to
hashes... Well never mind

Gergely.

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>>&gt;>> "srinivas" == srinivas reddy < reddysrinivas.k%40gmail.com">reddysrinivas.kgmail.com> writes:

srinivas> Would you please let me know the efficient way (different ways) to get the
srinivas> max or nth largest element in an array

use List::Util;
my $max = max(some_array);

That's the most efficient, because it's implemented in C.

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