Bows to the Perl Monks How do I loop through many arrays and on each loop I have to make a math function call. If I had one array I would loop through like below. But if I have 3 arrays or more like: 

@array1=(1,2,3,4,8);
@array2=(1,4,2,4,5);
@array3=(1,6,1,7,5);

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I want to loop through each array and see which one have the largest value at each index. What is the most efficient way of doing this please? Thank you very much for your help in advance.

SORRY UPDATE I probably didnt make this clear I was looking for at each index from each array 1,2,3 the largest value and which array had this largest value eg: index0: @array1,@array2,@array3 equal index2: @array3 index3: @array1 index4: @array3 index5: @array1 Apologizies for the inconvenience and thank you to those who responded.....

ONE ARRAY EXAMPLE:

@array=(1,2,3,4,5);
foreach $element (@array){
chomp $element;
if ($element == 1){
##do something;
}
}

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In reply to how to loop through many arrays by david_lyon

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