linear searching

Author: chinmoy159

searching/linear_searching.java

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+/**
+* Program for Linear Searching in JAVA
+* return the index of searched element if found,
+* else returns -1.
+*/
+public class linear_searching
+{
+	public static int search(int[] arr, int val)
+	{
+		int res;
+		for (res = 0; res < arr.length; ++res) {
+			if (arr[res] == val) {
+				return res;
+			}
+		}
+		return -1;
+	}
+}