programming-examples/c/Search_Sorting/C Program to Find kth Largest Element in a Sequence.c

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int partition(int* a, int low, int high)
{
int left = low;
int pivotIdx = low + (high - low)/2;
int pivot = a[pivotIdx];
a[pivotIdx] = a[high];
a[high] = pivot;
pivotIdx = high;
int partitionIdx = low;
while (left < high)
{
if (a[left] < pivot)
{
int tmp = a[left];
a[left] = a[partitionIdx];
a[partitionIdx] = tmp;
++partitionIdx;
}
++left;
}
a[pivotIdx] = a[partitionIdx];
a[partitionIdx] = pivot;
return partitionIdx;
}
int quickselect(int* a, int low, int high, int k)
{
if (low == high)
return a[low];
int pivotIdx = partition(a, low, high);
int sizeOfLeftSubArray = pivotIdx - low + 1;
if (sizeOfLeftSubArray > k)
{
return quickselect(a, low, pivotIdx-1, k);
}
else if (sizeOfLeftSubArray < k)
{
return quickselect(a, pivotIdx+1, high, k-sizeOfLeftSubArray);
}
else
{
return a[pivotIdx];
}
}
int main()
{
int arr[] = {4, 5, 22, 49, 64, 43, 32, 323, 78, 90};
int k;
printf("\nEnter the number 'k' to find the 'kth' largest element: ");
scanf("%d", &k);
printf("\nKth largest element is %d", quickselect(arr, 0, 9, k));
return 0;
}