Sample data is listed below.
'3.268160E-02',
'2.433833E-02',
'2.473959E-01',
'4.960246E-06',
'1.470189E-05',
'1.527312E-05',
'8.997553E+01',
'8.981999E+01',
'2.700648E+02',
'2.656095E+02',
'2.719822E+02',
'2.695895E+02'
For example, if I have a list [2, 4, 3], I want to check the following conditions:
Check if 2 is greater than 0 (the first number in the list) or if 2 is greater than 4 (the next number in the list). Check if 4 is greater than 2 (the previous number) or if 4 is greater than 3 (the next number). Check if 3 is greater than 4 (the previous number) or if 3 is greater than 0 (the last number in the list).
How can I implement this?
If you want to treat those as numbers, just do. Perl will do it automatically. You can either simple sort them:
my @sorted_list = sort { $a <=> $b } @numbers;
But keep in mind that sorting is expensive and costs way too much if you just want the max.
Or you can use List::Util
to find the greatest or smallest value.
use List::Util qw(max min);
say max (@numbers);
say min (@numbers);