You can do the following, but I will also advise you understand how perl works

Put all your variable into a subroutine, and then iterate over them getting and returning the largest as done below in case (a)

Case a:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $a=0.9; 
my $b=0.7; 
my $c=0.5;

  my $lar_value=max($a,$b,$c);
  print $lar_value," is the greatest",$/;

   sub max{
       my $init=shift(@_);
      foreach(@_){
         if($init>$_){
            $init=$init;
          }else{$init= $_}
     }
    return $init;
  }

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Case b: One can also use a module **List::Util** from CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~pevans/Scalar-List-Utils-1.25/lib/List/Util.pm. like this

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use List::Util qw(max);

my $a=0.9; 
my $b=0.7; 
my $c=0.5;

  my $lar_value=max($a,$b,$c);
  print $lar_value, " is the greatest\n";

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I hope this helps.

In reply to Re: How can I change the perl program involving if-elsif-else conditional to get correct result? by 2teez
in thread How can I change the perl program involving if-elsif-else conditional to get correct result? by supriyoch_2008

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