Hi,

If @array=(-3, -4, -2); then this code will fail.

The $max variable should be initialised by shift()ing a value from @array.
A small change would be required to the regex to allow negative numbers too. So we have

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @array=(-3,-4,-2);
my $max=shift @array ;

foreach (@array) {
  if (/^-?\d+$/) {
    $max=$_ if ($_>$max)
  }
}

print $max;
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cheers

thinker