Given a matrix of custom size the task is to print the minimum boundary element.
Example: Consider a matrix:-
| 11 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| 3 | 10 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | 11 | 9 |
Here minimum boundary elements is 3.
Java
import java.util.*;
public class MinBoundaryElement
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
int row=0,col=0,min=0;
Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Enter no.of rows: ");
row=sc.nextInt();
System.out.print("Enter no.of columns: ");
col=sc.nextInt();
int ar[][]=new int[row][col];
System.out.println("Enter matrix elements:-");
for(int i=0;i<row;i++)
{
for(int j=0;j<col;j++)
{
ar[i][j]=sc.nextInt();
}
}
min=ar[0][0];
for(int i=0;i<row;i++)
{
for(int j=0;j<col;j++)
{
if(i==0||i==row-1||j==0||j==col-1)
{
if(ar[i][j]<min)
{
min=ar[i][j];
}
}
}
}
System.out.println("Minimum of boundary elements is "+min);
}
}Java