{"id":5160,"date":"2022-08-27T00:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-cs-min_element-not-working-for-array-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T00:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:15:51","slug":"solved-cs-min_element-not-working-for-array-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-cs-min_element-not-working-for-array-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] C++&#8217;s min_element() not working for array [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-23871804\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"23871804\" data-parentid=\"23871658\" data-score=\"3\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Note, that <code>std::min_element()<\/code> returns an iterator to a minimal value, not the value itself. I doubt that you get this error based on the above code alone: assuming proper include directives and using directives the code compiles OK although it would print the address of the minimum element rather than its value. Most likely your actual code looks more like<\/p>\n<pre><code>unsigned min = std::min_element(w + a, w + b);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Note, that you should also check the result of reading from <code>std::cin<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre><code>if (std::cin &gt;&gt; n &gt;&gt; a &gt;&gt; b) {\n   \/\/ process the values\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>&#8230; and, of course, it seems you&#8217;re leaking the memory allocated for <code>w<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">4<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved C++&#8217;s min_element() not working for array [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Note, that std::min_element() returns an iterator to a minimal value, not the value itself. 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