in reply to How can I find the index of the biggest element in an array?

my $index = 0; my $maxval = $myarray[ $index ]; for my $i ( 0 .. $#myarray ) { $maxval < $myarray[$i] and $index = $i if $maxval < $myarray[$i]; } print "The greatest is element number $index: $myarray[$index]\n";