Re: argmin & argmax


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Re: argmin & argmax

by Roy Johnson (Monsignor)

on May 04, 2005 at 03:42 UTC ( [id://453806]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to argmin & argmax

You can tighten things up a little by initializing with the first element rather than dealing with undef:

sub argmax(&@) {
  return() unless @_ > 1;
  my $block = shift;
  my $index = shift;
  my $max = $block->($index);
  for (@_) {
    my $val = $block->($_);
    ($max, $index) = ($val, $_) if $val > $max;
  }
  return wantarray ? ($index, $max) : $index;
}
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