use strict; use warnings; my @not_normalized = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10); my @normalized = normalizer(@not_normalized); print "@normalized"; sub normalizer { # to normalize an input array bw 0 and 1 my @array = @_; use List::Util qw( min max ); # import min and max module my $min_numarray = min @array; # get min of args my $max_numarray = max @array; # get max of args my $numden = $max_numarray - $min_numarray; # denominator: max tot +al - min total foreach my $index (0..$#array) { # loop over args my $numdiv = $array[$index] - $min_numarray; # numerator: n + - min total $array[$index] = $numdiv / $numden; # normalize } return @array; }

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