/*  LargestReturned.kt  Copyright (c) Kari Laitinen

    http://www.naturalprogramming.com

    2020-10-30  File created.

*/

// The following function takes two input parameters and
// returns a value of type Int.

fun search_largest_integer( array_of_integers : IntArray,
                            number_of_integers_to_process : Int ) : Int
{
   var largest_integer = array_of_integers[ 0 ]
   var integer_index   = 1

   while ( integer_index  <  number_of_integers_to_process )
   {
      if ( array_of_integers[ integer_index ] > largest_integer )
      {
         largest_integer = array_of_integers[ integer_index ]
      }

      integer_index ++
   }

   return largest_integer
}


fun main()
{
   val first_array  = intArrayOf( 44, 2, 66, 33, 9 )
   val second_array = intArrayOf( 888, 777, 66, 999, 998, 997 )

   val found_largest_integer =  search_largest_integer( first_array, 5 )

   print( "\n The largest integer in first_array is "
       +  found_largest_integer  +  ".\n" )

   print( "\n The largest integer in second_array is "
       +  search_largest_integer( second_array, 6 ) +  ".\n\n\n" )
}