From 710d7bfbf61d57ae84609f27a2964309b960f7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prashant Bhapkar <prashantbhapkar11@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:39:31 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Find Second largest element in the array

---
 algorithms/C/arrays/secondLargestElement.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 algorithms/C/arrays/secondLargestElement.c

diff --git a/algorithms/C/arrays/secondLargestElement.c b/algorithms/C/arrays/secondLargestElement.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..04263d26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/algorithms/C/arrays/secondLargestElement.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+//Second largest element in the array
+
+#include<stdio.h>
+#include<stdlib.h>
+
+int second(int arr[],int size)
+{
+    int max1=arr[0],max2;
+    for(int i=0;i<size;i++)
+    {
+        if(arr[i]>max1) //Find largest element in the array
+        {
+            max2=max1;
+            max1=arr[i];
+        }
+        else if (arr[i]>max2 && arr[i]<max1) // Find second largest element in the array
+        {
+            max2=arr[i];
+        }
+    }
+        printf("%d %d",max1,max2); // Print both first and second largest element in the array
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+    int arr[]={2,5,1,12,18,88,23,45,4}; // Initialize array
+    int size=sizeof(arr)/sizeof(int); // Calculate array size
+    second(arr,size);
+    return 0;
+}