In this tutorial you will learn about the C Program to Find Largest and Smallest Number in an Array and its application with practical example.
C Program to Find Largest and Smallest Number in an Array
In this tutorial, we will learn to create a C program that will Find the Largest and Smallest Number in an Array using C programming.
Prerequisites
Before starting with this tutorial, we assume that you are the best aware of the following C programming topics:
- Operators in C Programming.
- Basic Input and Output function in C Programming.
- Basic C programming.
- For loop in C programming.
- Arithmetic operations in C Programming.
- Conditional Statements in the C Programming.
Find the Largest and the Smallest Number in an Array.
In this program, First, we will first take the size of the array from the user. Then we will take the elements of the array from the user. After that, we will compare every element of the array and Find the largest and the Smallest Number in that Array. Then we will print the largest element and the smallest element of the array to the user.
With the help of this program, we can be Find the Smallest Number in an Array.
Program Code:-
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// C program to find the smallest and largest element in an array #include<stdio.h> int main() { //declaring the required variables for the prorgam int a[50],i,n,lrg,sml; //i = it will hold the integer value for the loop //n = it will hold the integer value for the input size of array //lrg = it will hold the integer value for the largest value of the array //sml = it will hold the integer value for the smallest value of the array //a[50] = it will hold the integer value for the elements of array //Taking the input size of the array from the user. printf("\nEnter the number of elements : "); scanf("%d",&n); //Taking the input elements of the array. printf("\nInput the array elements : "); for(i=0;i<n;++i) scanf("%d",&a[i]); //Finding the largest and the smallest number lrg=sml=a[0]; for(i=1;i<n;++i) { if(a[i]>lrg) lrg=a[i]; if(a[i]<sml) sml=a[i]; } //Printing The smallest element printf("\nThe smallest element is %d\n",sml); //Printing The largest element printf("\nThe largest element is %d\n",lrg); return 0; } |
Output:-
In the above program, we have first initialized the required variable.
- n = it will hold the integer value.
- i = it will hold the integer value.
- a[50] = it will hold the integer value.
- sml = it will hold the integer value.
- lrg = it will hold the integer value.
Taking the size of the array and the elements.
Program Code to find the largest & smallest elements in the array.
Printing output of the program.
