To find the kth largest element in an array in Swift, we can sort the array in descending order and then return the element at index k-1. Here's the code to do that:
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In the above code, we first check if k is a valid value (i.e. greater than 0 and less than or equal to the size of the array). If it's not valid, we return nil.
Next, we sort the array in descending order using the sorted(by:)
function with the > operator as the sorting criteria.
Finally, we return the kth largest element at index k-1 (since arrays are 0-indexed).
To test the function, we create an example array and call the findKthLargestElement
function with a value of k=3. The output should be "The 3rd largest element is 5".
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