Re^4: Special formatting of error messages

The shortest I've got so far is my $max = (sort map { length } @test)[0]; This can also get the shortest by using -1 instead of 0.

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Eric Hodges

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Re^5: Special formatting of error messages by osunderdog (Deacon) on Feb 02, 2005 at 18:07 UTC
Bravo! I hadn't thought about doing it with sort. I came up with: `use List::Util qw\|max\|; ... my $maxsize = max(map {chomp; length} @lines);` [download] *"Look, Shiny Things!"* is not a better business strategy than compatibility and reuse.	[reply] [d/l]