C programming assignment

Question

How to find max and min value in an array of strings which contains very large numbers ?

For example in the array given below, the max value is 79837037403274 and min value is 80977907074

{"877320498384", "79837037403274", "80977907074", "587070509073"}

Answer 1

I would first search for the longest string in the array, then prefix all array members with '0' so all have the same length and finally use the sort function to sort alphabetically.

Answer 2

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    
    long int numbers[4] = {877320498384, 79837037403274, 80977907074, 587070509073};
    long int maximum = numbers[0], minimum = numbers[0];
    
    for(int counter = 0; counter < sizeof(numbers)/sizeof(numbers[0]); counter++){
        
        if(numbers[counter] > maximum){
            maximum = numbers[counter];
        }
        
        if(numbers[counter] < minimum){
             minimum = numbers[counter];
        }
        
    }
    
    printf("Maximum number in array = %lu \n", maximum);
    printf("Minimum number in array = %lu", minimum);

    return 0;
}

Answer 3

https://onlinegdb.com/BJa8s3tcL