How do you search for an element in unsorted array?

Answer 1

Let's use integers as an example.

int elementToFind; // the element we want to search for

int[] elementArray; // the array we want to search through

boolean found = false; //boolean flag to indicate if we found the element or not

for(int i = 0; i < elementArray.length; ++i) {

if(elementArray[i] == elementToFind) {

// we found the element at index i

// do whatever you want to do with this information

found = true;

}

//if found is still false so it means this element is not found

if(!found) {

//the element is not found in the array

}

}