Hi, while you already got a solution for your problem I would like to comment on your code. You seem to use a foreach loop only to abort it in the first iteration which you don't really have to in Perl. It looks very C'ish to me.

First, instead of: 

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

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you could write: 
foreach (sort sortHash (keys (%hashName))) {
  $max = $hashName{$_};
  last;
} # end-foreach

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because there is no need for the $i when you just check for 0.

Second, even easier in Perl, you can index returned lists when you put them in ( ): 

my $max = ( sort sortHash (keys (%hashName)) )[0];

# also possible:
my $min = ( sort sortHash (keys (%hashName)) )[-1];

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or simply by doing an array assignment: 
my ($max) = sort sortHash (keys (%hashName));

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also the ( ) around and after keys aren't necessary and avoiding them would make the code more readable.

In reply to Re: max value in a hash by mscharrer
in thread max value in a hash by rsiedl

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