From eaffb74fa1980fde20883e75acfd281601050680 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SHIVAM  KANSAL <37900053+shivamkansal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:06:12 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] create linear search

---
 CPP/linearsearch.cpp | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CPP/linearsearch.cpp

diff --git a/CPP/linearsearch.cpp b/CPP/linearsearch.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18dad825f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CPP/linearsearch.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#include <iostream>
+using namespace std;
+
+int search(int arr[], int n, int x)
+{
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+		if (arr[i] == x)
+			return i;
+	return -1;
+}
+
+// Driver code
+int main(void)
+{
+	int arr[] = { 2, 3, 4, 10, 40 };
+	int x = 10;
+	int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]);
+
+	// Function call
+	int result = search(arr, n, x);
+	(result == -1)
+		? cout << "Element is not present in array"
+		: cout << "Element is present at index " << result;
+	return 0;
+}