How do I find the largest negative value in an array with both positive and negative values?

Question

I need to return the greatest negative value, and if there are no negative values, I need to return zero. Here is what I have:

public int greatestNegative(int[]          


        

Answer 1

Please check following code, which will first calculate small number from array, then check is it positive? if yes return 0 else return negative.

public static int greatestNegative(int[] list) 
{
    int negativeNumbers = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    for (int i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
        if (list[i] < negativeNumbers)
                negativeNumbers  = list[i];
    }

    if(negativeNumbers  >=0)
         return 0;
    else
         return negativeNumbers;

}