Thread: Function that accepts an integer/char array

Hi I am last year MCA student. Currently I am learning C programming language. I want to write a function that accepts an integer/char array and a search item. If the search item is there in the array return position of array and value else return -1.without using together array, without sorting, not to use more than one loop? Give me the perfect solution to all this.

Code:

int find_num(int *arr, int *arr_num, int arr_size)
{
int i;
for(i=0;i<arr_size;i++)
{
 if(*(arr+i) != *arr_num)
  continue;
 else
  return i;
}
return -1;
}

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I have tried the given code but it didn’t solve my problem. Please try to provide some other solution.

Code:

int find_num(int *arr, int *arr_num, int arr_size)
{
int i;
while((i<arr_size) && (*(arr+i) != *arr_num))
  i++;
if(i >= arr_size)
  return -1;
else
  return i;
}