Selection Sort Example Program in Java

package in.malliktalksjava;

/**
* @author malliktalksjava
* @version 1.0
*
* Below class sorts the given array using SelectionSort
* mechanism and prints the output into console.
*/
public class SelectionSortExample {

/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String args[]){

int[] arr1 = {12,434,2,23,7,44,66,42};
int[] arr2 = doSelectionSort(arr1);
for(int var:arr2){
System.out.print(var);
System.out.print(“, “);
}
}

/**
* @param arr
* @return sorted array
*/
public static int[] doSelectionSort(int[] arr){

for (int count = 0; count < arr.length – 1; count++)
{
int index = count;
for (int count2 = count + 1; count2 < arr.length; count2++){
if (arr[count2] < arr[index]){
index = count2;
}
}

int smallerNumber = arr[index];
arr[index] = arr[count];
arr[count] = smallerNumber;
}
return arr;
}
}

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