Greatest element of a list
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Create a function that returns the maximum value in a provided set of values, where the number of values isn't known until runtime.
C
This works well with floats. Replace with double, int or what-have-you before passing a different data type. <C>function max(unsigned int count, float values[] {
float themax;
for(unsigned int idx = 0; idx < count; ++idx) {
themax = values[idx] > themax ? values[idx] : themax;
}
return themax;
}</C>
C++
This will work for any type with a > operator defined. <cpp>template<typename Ty> Ty max(unsigned int count, Ty values[]) {
Ty themax;
for(unsigned int idx = 0; idx <; count; ++idx) {
themax = values[idx] > themax ? values[idx] : themax;
}
return themax;
}</cpp>
Perl
<perl>sub max {
my $list = \@_;
my $themax = $list->[0];
foreach ( @$list ) {
$themax = $_ > $themax ? $_ : $themax;
}
return $themax;
}</perl>