Finding the position of the maximum element
Is there a standard function that returns the position (not value) of the maximum element of an array of values?
For example:
Suppose I have an array like this:
sampleArray = [1, 5, 2, 9, 4, 6, 3]
I want a function that returns the integer of 3 that tells me that sampleArray[3]
is the largest value in the array.
In the STL, std::max_element
provides the iterator (which can be used to get index with std::distance
, if you really want it).
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
int A[4] = {0, 2, 3, 1};
const int N = sizeof(A) / sizeof(int);
cout << "Index of max element: "
<< distance(A, max_element(A, A + N))
<< endl;
return 0;
}
Or, written in one line:
std::cout << std::distance(sampleArray.begin(),std::max_element(sampleArray.begin(), sampleArray.end()));
You can use the max_element()
function to find the position of the maximum element.
int main()
{
int num, arr[10];
int x, y, a, b;
cin >> num;
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++)
{
cin >> arr[i];
}
cout << "Max element Index: " << max_element(arr, arr + num) - arr;
return 0;
}