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min() (Score:2)

by ziggy (25)

So I'll have the ID # and a list of other ID #'s and I need to know if it's the smallest.

That code is very confusing. Sorta like taking a flight from NY to LA by via Johannesburg and Perth. Why not just grab the smallest element of the list?
use List::Util qw(min); if ( $id_number == min(@ids) )

If you needed to avoid List::Util for some odd reason, I don't know why you would sort a list, reverse it and take the last element (in a most convoluted fashion) when you could just:
if ( $id_number =
- Re:min() (Score:2)
  
  by Purdy (2383) <jasonNO@SPAMpurdy.info> on 2005.09.07 9:04 (#43107) Homepage Journal
  
  *nod* - agreed. See prev. comment - I simply wanted to apply what Cees taught me about scalarizing a list.
  
  Hmmm -- maybe this won't even see the light of day in my import script now. ;)
  
  Peace,
  
  Jason
  
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