Merge pull request #79 from hegdenaveen1/patch-4

Rectified Linear Search

Search/Linear Search.cpp

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #include<iostream>
 using namespace std;
 
-int LinearSearch(int *array, int key)
+int LinearSearch(int *array, int size, int key)
 {
-	for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
+	for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i)
 	{
 		if (array[i]==key)
 		{
-			return key;
+			return i;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -17,19 +17,24 @@ int LinearSearch(int *array, int key)
 
 int main()
 {
-	int array[10];
+	int size;
+	cout<<"\nEnter the size of the Array : ";
+	cin >> size;
+	
+	int array[size];
 	int key;
 
 	//Input array
-	cout<<"\nEnter the Array of 10 numbers : ";
+	cout<<"\nEnter the Array of " << size << " numbers : ";
-	for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
+	for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
 	{
 		cin>>array[i];
 	}
+	
 	cout<<"\nEnter the number to be searched : ";
 	cin>>key;
 
-	int index=LinearSearch(array, key);
+	int index=LinearSearch(array, size, key);
 	if (index!=-1)
 	{
 		cout<<"\nNumber found at index : "<<index;