get the largest element from the array and print it
can any body help me with this code ..i want to take an array from the user and get the largest element from the array and print it ..but it always gives me zero
Code:#include<stdio.h> int a[100],i,m; int max(int a[]) { for(int j=0;j<=5;j++) { m=a[i]; if(a[i+1]>a[i]) m=a[i+1]; } return m; } void main() { printf("enter the array please \n"); for(i=0;i<=5;i++) scanf("%d",&a[i]); printf("the max = %d",max(a) ); }
That is not how max() really works; at least the one that I know of is max(a,b) returning the max of the two. One lame approach would be skipping the check/printf() within the for loop but create int nCurrentMax = 0 at the top of main() and then compare each entered value as it is entered like:
Then at the end of main() a printf("Max value entered was %d\n", nCurrentMax); should do the trick. I said this was lame b/c I think there is an STL call that will do the same, not on a basic C-style array but rather on a linked list or vector...Code:if( nCurrentMax < a[i]) { nCurrentMax = a[i]; }
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Why the hell did you hijack someone else's thread??? Grrrr...
