finding the string with the longest length 1

[danny2785]

If I have a list of strings, is there a way to find the string with the longest length without iterating through each component of the list? Thanks

 

[ishnid]

Not if the list isn't ordered by string length.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

This is cheating a little but it should do the trick:

my $longest = (sort {length($b)<=>length($a)} @strings)[0];

Trojan.