Program to find the largest element in an array

Program to find largest element in an array

The solution is to initialize max as the first element, then traverse the given array from the second element till the end. For every traversed element, compare it with max, if it is greater than max, then update max.

// Java Program to find maximum in arr[] 
class Test 
{ 
	static int arr[] = {10, 324, 45, 90, 9808}; 
	
	// Method to find maximum in arr[] 
	static int largest() 
	{ 
		int i; 
		
		// Initialize maximum element 
		int max = arr[0]; 
		
		// Traverse array elements from second and 
		// compare every element with current max 
		for (i = 1; i < arr.length; i++) 
			if (arr[i] > max) 
				max = arr[i]; 
		
		return max; 
	} 
	
	// Driver method 
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{ 
		System.out.println("Largest in given array is " + largest()); 
		} 
}