Starting Out with C++: Early Objects
Starting Out with C++: Early Objects
8th Edition
ISBN: 9780133360929
Author: Tony Gaddis, Judy Walters, Godfrey Muganda
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Chapter 9, Problem 6RQE
Program Plan Intro

Linear search:

  • Linear search or sequential search is a process of searching for a particular element that is present in the array on by one till the last element until the search element is found.
  • The search uses loop that iterates from the beginning till the last element to find the search element.
  • The search continues for all the elements present in the array until the last element.
  • The search of the target element is made after comparing with the each and every element that is present in the array.

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