C++ Program to Find Minimum Element in an Array using Linear Search

C++ Program to find the minimum element of an array using Linear Search approach.

1. Search the minimum element with time complexity O(n).

1. Compare the element at the beginning with another array element sequentially.
2. Swap values if the element at the beginning is larger than the other element.
3. This value will be the minimum value among the given data.
4. Exit.

C++ program to find the minimum element of an array using Linear Search approach.
This program is successfully run on Dev-C++ using TDM-GCC 4.9.2 MinGW compiler on a Windows system.

#include<iostream>
 
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
	int n, i, min, a[30]={89, 53, 95, 12, 9, 67, 72, 66, 75, 77, 18, 24, 35, 90, 38, 41, 49, 81, 27, 97, 111, 116, 854, 234, 658, 546, 987, 268, 946, 852};
	char ch;
	min = a[0];
	cout<<"\nThe data element of array:";
 
	for(i = 1; i < 30; i++)
	{
		cout<<" "<<a[i];
		// Assign min to the current element if its value is lesser than min value.
		if(min > a[i])
			min = a[i];
	}
	cout<<"\n\nMinimum of the data elements of array using linear search is: "<<min;
 
    return 0;	
}

1. Assign the data element to an array.
2. Assign the value at ‘0’ index to min variable.
3. Compare min with other data element sequentially.
4. Swap values if min value is more then the value at that particular index of the array.
5. Display the minimum value.
6. Exit.