C Program to Find Smallest Element in Array in C Programming

Data Structure / Array

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Program:

#include<stdio.h>

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

   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 smallest
   smallest = a[0];

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

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

   return (0);
}

Output:

Enter no of elements : 5
11 44 22 55 99
Smallest Element : 11

Explanation:

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