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Daily Challenge #JS-98: Find the Second Largest Number in an Array (in C#)
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| /* | |
| Find the Second Largest Number in an Array | |
| The Challenge | |
| Difficulty: Medium | |
| Topic: Array Manipulation | |
| Description | |
| Write a JavaScript function that takes an array of numbers | |
| and returns the second largest number in the array. | |
| If the array has less than two distinct numbers, return null. | |
| */ | |
| void Main() | |
| { | |
| int[] array = new int[] { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 1, 2, 11, 3, 11, 4, 8, 7, 6, 5 }; | |
| // int[] array = new int[] { 2, 2, 2,2,2,2,}; | |
| (int? Max, int? Snd) tuple = (null, null); | |
| array.Aggregate(tuple, | |
| (t, n) => (n == t.Max.GetValueOrDefault()) ? t // deal with repeated highest | |
| : (n > t.Max.GetValueOrDefault()) ? (n, t.Max) // new highest | |
| : (n > t.Snd.GetValueOrDefault()) ? (t.Max, n) // new 2nd highest | |
| : t) | |
| .Snd.Dump(); | |
| /* The more explicit version | |
| array.Aggregate(tuple, (t, n) => | |
| { | |
| if (n > t.Max.GetValueOrDefault()) | |
| return (n, t.Max); | |
| if (n > t.Snd.GetValueOrDefault()) | |
| return (t.Max, n); | |
| return t; | |
| }).Snd.Dump(); | |
| */ | |
| } |
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