pop only works on an array, not a list; try a list slice: 
my $max_col = (sort {$a <=> $b} map $#$_, @rows)[-1];

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though in this particular case, you can just reverse the sort and use a list assignment: 
my ($max_col) = sort {$b <=> $a} map $#$_, @rows;

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Nit: I think of "max_cols" as being maximum number of columns found, but you are wanting one less than that, the maximum column index, so I called it max_col instead. And I think @$_ - 1 is pretty ugly compared to the elegant $#$_ :)

In reply to Re^3: Transpose a matrix of chars by ysth
in thread Transpose a matrix of chars by dirac

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