C Program to Find Largest Element in Array in C Programming

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Program:

#include<stdio.h>

int main() {
   int a[30], i, num, largest;

   printf("\nEnter no of elements :");
   scanf("%d", &num);

   //Read n elements in an array
   for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
      scanf("%d", &a[i]);

   //Consider first element as largest
   largest = a[0];

   for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
      if (a[i] > largest) {
         largest = a[i];
      }
   }

   // Print out the Result
   printf("\nLargest Element : %d", largest);

   return (0);
}

Output:

Enter no of elements : 5
11 55 33 77 22
Largest Element : 77

Explanation:

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