max_element and template[Help]

[raynierl]

I do not know why it's is not working, is it my function, is it my template.

#include<iostream>
#include<cstring>
#include<algorithm>
using namespace std;
template <class first, class size>
first max(first arr[], size N)
{
	int max = (max_element(arr,arr+N));
	return (max);
}
	
int main()
{
	int l= 6;
	int arr[] = {1,23,4,5,6,7};
	cout << max(arr,l);
	return 0;
}

17 34[Error] invalid conversion from 'int*' to 'int' [-fpermissive]
this is one of the errors that keeps popping up.

[Arslan7041]

std::max_element returns an iterator/pointer to the max element. You simply need to dereference it before assigning it to an int on line 8.

int max = *(max_element(arr,arr+N));

[raynierl]

Awsome, thank you so much now it works perfectly.