my @d1s = sort { $b <=> $a } $d61 ;
    my @d2s = sort { $b <=> $a } $d62 ;
    my @d3s = sort { $b <=> $a } $d63 ;
    my @d4s = sort { $b <=> $a } $d64 ;

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What is the point of this? Sorting lone scalars, and putting them in one element arrays? What's the point of chomping $roll? I would write that as: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $tosses = 5;
my $dice   = 4;

foreach (1 .. $tosses) {
    my @rolls = sort {$b <=> $a} map {2 + int rand 5} 1 .. $dice;
    pop @rolls;
    my $sum = 0;
       $sum += $_ for @rolls;
    print "\n@rolls: $sum\n\n";
}
__END__

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And that includes finding the top-3 rolls and summing them.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Remove lowest number by Abigail-II
in thread Remove lowest number by ellem

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