i have a code that prints out the number of peaks and their given magnitudes. the input is in the form of a single line that contains random integers separated by white space. a peak is only defined to be so when it is directly preceded and followed by a smaller value.
examples:
0 4 18 18 26 40 40 29 25 2 0 //has one peak of magnitude 40.
20 10 20 /*has no peaks, because both 20's are either not
preceded or followed by a smaller number.*/
c
9 8 7 6 5 4
10 10 10 5 5 5 12 12 12 -1
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
int a = 0;
int b = 0;
int c = 0;
int counter = 0;
scanf("%d", &c);
printf("Number Magnitude\n");
while (c >= 0){
if ((b > a) && (b > c)) { //to check if we have a peak
counter++;
printf("%4d%11d\n", counter, b);
a = b;
b = c;
scanf("%d", &c);
}
else if ((a < b) && (b == c)) {
b = c;
scanf("%d", &c);
}
else {
a = b;
b = c;
scanf("%d", &c);
}
}
}
The issue is being caused because you initialize your boundary values to the minimum possible value. Any possible peak value will test positive when compared to that boundary value.
A small change fixes it, both boundary values should be set to a value that tests negative when compared to any possible peak value:
int a = INT_MAX;
int b = INT_MAX;
You will however to detect new lines and reset your values if you want to be able to do multiple lines of input, but I believe this is an existing problem