Hi,
you need to make the old largest number the second_largest if there is a new largest one.
I fixed some other minor things as well.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @input = <DATA>; chomp @input;
my $largest_value = 0;
my $second_value = 0;
for (@input){
#$value = substr($input[$i], 0, 6); why? Perl can dwal with floati
+ng point numbers
if($_ > $largest_value){
$second_value = $largest_value;
$largest_value= $_;
}
elsif(($_ > $second_value) && ($_ < $largest_value)){
$second_value = $_;
}
}
print "$largest_value $second_value\n";
__DATA__
0.2430
0.0830
0.1320
0.0920
0.0180
0.0880
0.3440
prints
0.3440 0.2430
Regards,
svenXY
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