find 5th smallest element from array?

[anu401]

how to find out the 5 th smallest element from the following array?
10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100.
no need of program for me i need only the sum
i need only that mechanism....
i need how the loop works and how that numbers are used in loops.........please help

[weaknessforcats]

Sort the array.

Then pick the 5th element of the sorted array.

[anu401]

already it looks like sorted element how to choose smallest element i cant get the answer
i dont know how the loop works

[jkmyoung]

What is this loop that you are referring to? Do you have the code for it?

[Oralloy]

Likely you simply want the fifth array element, for example "a[4]", if you'd sorted the elements into array "a".

Of course, if there are less than five elements in your array, you'll have to fail appropriately.

Still, if you post code, we might be able to help you better.

[santechselva]

for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
for(j=1+1;j<10;j++)
{
if(a[i]>a[j])
{
a[i]=k;
a[i]=a[j];
a[j]=k;
}
}
}

THIS IS USED FOR SORTING OF 10 NUMBERS IN ASCENDING ORDER
MODIFY YOUR PROGRAM BY PRINTING THE FIFTH ELEMENT

[donbock]

Change 7th line from

a[i] = k;

to

k = a[i];

Please use CODE tags.