Hi, I'm looking for an easier/quicker way of finding the max "value" in a hash, rather than doing a value sort and pulling out the first variable in the list.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# My old code

use strict;
use warnings;

my %hashName = ( "term1" => 83, "term2" => 20, "term3" => 193 );

my $i = 0;
my $max = 0;
foreach (sort sortHash (keys (%hashName))) {
  if ($i == 0) { $max = $hashName{$_}; last }
} # end-foreach

sub sortHash {
  $hashName{$b} <=> $hashName{$a};
}

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Anyone know a better way?

Cheers,
Reagen

In reply to max value in a hash by rsiedl

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