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Program to find maximum in array elements using recursion and conditional operator

Program to find maximum in array elements using recursion and conditional operator

Write a C program to find maximum and minimum elements in an array using recursion. How to find maximum and minimum element in an array using recursion in C programming.

#include <stdio.h>
#define maxsize 100 //Maximum size of the array

/* Function declarations */
int maximum(int array[], int index, int len);
int minimum(int array[], int index, int len);

int main()
{
    int array[maxsize], N, max, min;
    int i;

    /* Input size and elements of array */
    printf("Enter size of the array: ");
    scanf("%d", &N);
    printf("Enter %d elements in array: ", N);
    for(i=0; i<N; i++)
    {
        scanf("%d", &array[i]);
    }

    max = maximum(array, 0, N);
    min = minimum(array, 0, N);

    printf("Minimum element in array = %d\n", min);
    printf("Maximum element in array = %d\n", max);

    return 0;
}

int maximum(int array[], int index, int len)
{
    int max;

    if(index >= len-2)
        return (array[index] > array[index + 1])
                    ? array[index]
                    : array[index + 1];

    max = maximum(array, index + 1, len);

    return (array[index] > max)
                ? array[index]
                : max;
}

/* Recursive function to find minimum element in the array. */
int minimum(int array[], int index, int len)
{
    int min;

    if(index >= len-2)
    {
        return (array[index] < array[index + 1])
                    ? array[index]
                    : array[index + 1];
    }

    min = minimum(array, index + 1, len);

    return (array[index] < min)
                ? array[index]
                : min;
}