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Ruby program to find the largest element from the array

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will create an array of integer elements. Then we will find the largest element from the array and print it.

Program/Source Code

The source code to find the largest element from the array is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to find the largest element 
# from the array

arr = [12,45,23,33,38];

count = 0;
large = 0;

large=arr[0];

while (count<arr.size)
    if(large<arr[count])
        large=arr[count];
    end
    count=count + 1;
end

print "Largest element is: ",large,"\n";

Output

Largest element is: 45

Explanation

In the above program, we created an array of integer elements. Then we found the largest element from the array and printed the largest element.

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