You need to keep track of the sign of the y-delta of the last pair, and compare it to the sign of the y-delta of the current pair.

The following is a start. Input is not validated. Adjacent "peak" points with the same y value will be skipped -- you'll need to add some code for that. "Peak" points that occur on the first or last data point will be skipped. There may be an error on the first pair with some input.

Untested: 

#!/your/perl/here
use strict;
use warnings;

my $last_sign;
my $last_y;
my $last_x;
while (<>)
{
    my ($x,$y) = split;
    my $sign = $y <=> $last_y;
    if ( $last_sign <=> $sign )
    {
        print "$last_x $last_y\n";
    }
    $last_x    = $x;
    $last_y    = $y;
    $last_sign = $sign;
}

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In reply to Re^3: Any idea for predicting the peak points in the graph by perl by QM
in thread Any idea for predicting the peak points in the graph by perl by Anonymous Monk

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