C Program to find Largest element in the array
Get array size n and n elements of array, then find the largest element among those elements.
Sample Input 1:
5 5 7 9 3 1
Sample Output 1:
9
Program or Solution
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
int *a,n,i,max;
printf("Enter size of array:");
scanf("%d",&n);
a=malloc(sizeof(int)*n);
printf("Enter %d Elements:",n);
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
scanf("%d",&a[i]);
}
max=a[0];
for(i=1;i<n;i++)
{
if(a[i]>max)
{
max=a[i];
}
}
printf("%d",max);
return 0;
}
Program Explanation
i is initialized to 0 and incremented by 1 at each iteration of both the for loops.
First for loop reads n input numbers from user and stores them in array a[] from location 0 to n-1 assign the element located at 0 to max using max = a[0].
using second for loop visit each location serially from 1 to n-1.
if the element located in any position is greater than max, then assign the element as max by using max = a[i] finally max holds the maximum value in the list.