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In this tutorial, we will write a program to find the largest element in an array in C language. An example program is shown below
<pre class="language-cpp"><code>#include&lt;stdio.h&gt;

int returnMax(int array[], int n){
 int max=0;
 for (int i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)
 {
 if(array[i]&gt;max){
 max = array[i];
 }
 } 
 array[0] = 999;
 return max;
}

int main(){
 int arr[]= {1,12,3,5455,5,67,654};
 int max = returnMax(arr, 7);
 printf("The maximum element in this array is %d", max);
 for (int i = 0; i &lt; 7; i++)
 {
 printf("The element %d is %d\n", i, arr[i]);
 }
 
 return 0;
}
</code></pre>
Code Snippet 1: Multiplication of Table of a Given Number
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As shown in a code snippet 1,
<ol>
<li>We created a function &ldquo;returnMax&rdquo; which takes two arguments &ldquo;array[]&rdquo; and &ldquo;n&rdquo;; the parameter &ldquo;array[]&rdquo; will receive reference of an array and the parameter &ldquo;n&rdquo; will receive the size of an array.</li>
<li>In the function &ldquo;returnMax&rdquo; body we created an integer variable &ldquo;max&rdquo; to store the maximum value.</li>
<li>The &ldquo;for&rdquo; loop will iterate till the length of an array and the &ldquo;if&rdquo; will compare the value of each element of the array with the value of &ldquo;max&rdquo;; if the value of array element will be greater than the value of max than that value will be stored in the &ldquo;max&rdquo; variable.</li>
<li>In the main program, an array of size 7 is initialized.</li>
<li>The function &ldquo;returnMax&rdquo; is called and the reference of an array and its size is passed. The return value is stored in the variable &ldquo;max&rdquo;.</li>
</ol>
The main thing to note here is that we are passing the reference of an array to the function and if the user changes the value of array in the function it will also be changed in the main program. For example, we have assigned the value &ldquo;999&rdquo; to the index&rdquo;0&rdquo; of an array in the function &ldquo;returnMax&rdquo;; and shown in figure 1 when we output the array the value at index &ldquo;0&rdquo; is changed to &ldquo;999&rdquo;
The output of the following program is shown below
<img src="https://cwh-full-next-space.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/videos/c-practice-programs-in-hindi-3/base64.webp" />
Figure 1: Program Output
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