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C language passing an array to function example

#include<stdio.h>
int minarray(int arr[5]){
int min=arr[0];
int i=0;
for(i=1;i<5;i++){
if(min>arr[i]){
min=arr[i];
}
}//end of for
return min;
}//end of function

int main(){
int i=0,min=0;
int numbers[]={5,7,3,8,9};//declaration of array

min=minarray(numbers,5);//passing array with size


printf("minimum number is %d \n",min);
return 0;
}
Output
minimum number is 3
C function to sort the array
#include<stdio.h>
void Bubble_Sort(int[]);
void main ()
{
int arr[10] = { 10, 9, 7, 101, 23, 44, 12, 78, 34, 23};
Bubble_Sort(arr);
}
void Bubble_Sort(int a[]) //array a[] points to arr.
{
int i, j,temp;
for(i = 0; i<10; i++)
{
for(j = i+1; j<10; j++)
{
if(a[j] < a[i])
{
temp = a[i];
a[i] = a[j];
a[j] = temp;
}
}
}
printf("Printing Sorted Element List ...\n");
for(i = 0; i<10; i++)
{
printf("%d\n",a[i]);
}
} Output
Printing Sorted Element List ...
7
9
10
12
23
23
34
44
78
101
Returning array from the function
As we know that, a function can not return more than one value.
However, if we try to write the return statement as return a, b, c;
to return three values (a,b,c), the function will return the last
mentioned value which is c in our case. In some problems, we
may need to return multiple values from a function. In such
cases, an array is returned from the function.
Returning an array is similar to passing the array into the
function. The name of the array is returned from the function. To
make a function returning an array, the following syntax is used.
int * Function_name() {
//some statements;
return array_type;
}
To store the array returned from the function, we can define a
pointer which points to that array. We can traverse the array by
increasing that pointer since pointer initially points to the base
address of the array. Consider the following example that
contains a function returning the sorted array.
#include<stdio.h>
int* Bubble_Sort(int[]);
void main ()
{
int arr[10] = { 10, 9, 7, 101, 23, 44, 12, 78, 34, 23};
int *p = Bubble_Sort(arr), i;
printf("printing sorted elements ...\n");
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
printf("%d\n",*(p+i));
}
}
int* Bubble_Sort(int a[]) //array a[] points to arr.
{
int i, j,temp;
for(i = 0; i<10; i++)
{
for(j = i+1; j<10; j++)
{
if(a[j] < a[i])
{
temp = a[i];
a[i] = a[j];
a[j] = temp;
}
}
}
return a;
}
Output
Printing Sorted Element List ...
7
9
10
12
23
23
34
44
78
101

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