Hi, I've recently been learning a bit of perl and this site has been super helpful, so thanks to everyone who contributes.

Anyway, I've come across a problem I cannot seem to be able to figure out. I'm trying to find the coresponding key for the highest value of a hash.

My attempt is:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;


my %hash=  ( '1', '8', '2', '6', '3','3' ,'4','7');
my $highest =0;
while (my ($key, $value) = each %hash) {
        $highest=$key if ($highest <  $value) ;
        print "$key key has a value $value \n";
}
print "$highest key has the highest value\n";

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and my results look like:

4 key has a value 7 
1 key has a value 8 
3 key has a value 3 
2 key has a value 6 
2 key has the highest value

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Where as I am trying to get the last line to say "1 key has the highest value" since the value of "1" is "8"... Both keys 1 and 4 have a higher value than 2.

any tips are much appreciated.

In reply to highest value in hash by maciej

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