Finding the max/min value in an array of primitives using Java

Question

It\'s trivial to write a function to determine the min/max value in an array, such as:

/**
 * 
 * @param chars
 * @return the max value in the array of chars         


        

Answer 1

Example with float:

public static float getMaxFloat(float[] data) {

    float[] copy = Arrays.copyOf(data, data.length);
    Arrays.sort(copy);
    return copy[data.length - 1];
}

public static float getMinFloat(float[] data) {

    float[] copy = Arrays.copyOf(data, data.length);
    Arrays.sort(copy);
    return copy[0];
}