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in thread How can I change the perl program involving if-elsif-else conditional to get correct result?

If you are going to do it like that, you need a numeric sort, not the default alphabetic sort: 
@sorted = sort{$a <=> $b}($x, $y, $z);
print $sorted[-1];

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Also, $a and $b are special variables reserved for sort and other purposes. Don't uses these for normal user variables.
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