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Learning/7. Challenges/4. Arrays/smallest-array-element.c

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+// Program to find the smallest element from an array.
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main() {
+
+ // create an integer array of size 5
+ int numbers[5];
+
+ // get input value for the array
+ for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+ scanf("%d", &numbers[i]);
+ }
+
+ // create a variable smallest and assign first element of numbers to it
+ int smallest = numbers[0];
+
+ // run a for loop from i = 1 to i < 5
+ // check if smallest is less than element at i
+ for (int i = 1; i < 5; i++) {
+ if (numbers[i] < smallest) {
+ smallest = numbers[i];
+ }
+ }
+
+ // print smallest 
+ printf("%d", smallest);
+
+ return 0;
+}