Finding the max/min value in an array of primitives using Java

Question

It\'s trivial to write a function to determine the min/max value in an array, such as:

/**
 * 
 * @param chars
 * @return the max value in the array of chars         


        

Answer 1

Pass the array to a method that sorts it with Arrays.sort() so it only sorts the array the method is using then sets min to array[0] and max to array[array.length-1].