Daily JavaScript Challenge #JS-98: Find the Second Largest Number in an Array

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Daily JavaScript Challenge: Find the Second Largest Number in an Array

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The Challenge

Difficulty: Medium

Topic: Array Manipulation

Description

Write a JavaScript function that takes an array of numbers and returns the second largest number in the array. If the array has less than two distinct numbers, return null.

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Top comments (2)

James Curran • Feb 15

In C#:

    int[] array = new int[] { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 1, 2, 11, 3, 11, 4, 8, 7, 6, 5 };
//  int[] array = new int[] { 2, 2, 2,2,2,2,};


    (int? Max, int? Snd) tuple = (null, null);

    array.Aggregate(tuple, 
                   (t, n) => (n == t.Max.GetValueOrDefault()) ? t   // deal with repeated highest
                    : (n > t.Max.GetValueOrDefault()) ? (n, t.Max) // new highest
                    : (n > t.Snd.GetValueOrDefault()) ? (t.Max, n) // new 2nd highest
                    : t)
        .Snd.Dump();