An easier way to find the highest hash value

without looping through all of them

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Is there an easy way of finding out which key in my hash has the highest value. I'm currently going through each one by one and comparing them.

I know there are lots of Perl tricks and wonder if there is one for this.

As an example, say:

$hasharray{"turnips"} = 9
$hasharray{"swedes"} = 3
$hasharray{"carrots"} = 95

What is the easier way to find carrots?

Cheers

[KevinADC]

you will have to go through all the hash keys to find the highest value, that is a given. But you can use sort to do the dirty work:

my @sorted = sort {$hasharray{$b} <=> $hasharray{$a}} keys %hasharray; 
print $sorted[0];