Editing Selection sort (section)

== Implementations ==
Below is an implementation in [[C (programming language)|C]].
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/* a[0] to a[aLength-1] is the array to sort */
int i,j;
int aLength; // initialise to a's length

/* advance the position through the entire array */
/*   (could do i < aLength-1 because single element is also min element) */
for (i = 0; i < aLength-1; i++)
{
    /* find the min element in the unsorted a[i .. aLength-1] */

    /* assume the min is the first element */
    int jMin = i;
    /* test against elements after i to find the smallest */
    for (j = i+1; j < aLength; j++)
    {
        /* if this element is less, then it is the new minimum */
        if (a[j] < a[jMin])
        {
            /* found new minimum; remember its index */
            jMin = j;
        }
    }

    if (jMin != i) 
    {
        swap(&a[i], &a[jMin]);
    }
}
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