How to Retrieve Maximum or Minimum Values in a Vector in C

In C , finding the maximum or minimum value within a vector is a common task. While arrays and vectors share similarities, obtaining these values differs slightly between the two data structures.

Vectors

To retrieve the maximum or minimum value in a vector, you can use the std::max_element() or std::min_element() functions from the header. These functions take iterators to the beginning and end of the vector as arguments and return an iterator pointing to the element with the maximum or minimum value.

#include 
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int main() {
  std::vector vector = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

  // Getting the maximum value
  int max = *std::max_element(vector.begin(), vector.end());
  std::cout ::iterator it_max = std::max_element(vector.begin(), vector.end());
  std::cout 
Arrays
In the case of arrays, you cannot directly use std::max_element() or std::min_element() since they require iterators. Instead, you can use a loop to iterate through the array and find the maximum or minimum value manually.
int main() {
  int array[5] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

  // Getting the maximum value
  int max = array[0];
  for (int i = 1; i  max) {
      max = array[i];
    }
  }
  std::cout