Re: [FWP] Finding the length of the longest string

[Todd Larason <jtl@molehill.org>]

On 990623, Larry Rosler wrote:
> Subtler and somewhat faster:
> 
> my $len = "";
> $len ^= $_ for @data;
> $len = length $len;

$len = shift @{[sort {$b<=>$a} map {length($_)} @data]};

okay, not faster.  but certainly less obvious.


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