Question

Write a method/function to find the smallest number in an array of type int. Declare the array size to be 7 and fill the array from the keyboard. The method should take the array as a parameter and return the smallest number as the return value.

using c++

Answer 1

Code

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int findSmallestElement(int arr[],int n){
   int temp = arr[0];
   for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
      if(temp>arr[i]) {
         temp=arr[i];
      }
   }
   return temp;
}
int main() {
   int n=7;
   int arr[n-1];
   cout<<"Enter array elements: ";
   for(int i=0; i<n; i++){
      cin>>arr[i];
   }
   int smallest = findSmallestElement(arr, n);
   cout<<"Smallest Element is: "<<smallest;
   return 0;
}

output