C Program to Find Sum of Diagonal Elements of a Matrix

This is a program to do the sum of the main & opposite diagonal elements of a MxN Matrix

Problem Description

This C Program finds the sum of the main & opposite diagonal elements of a MxN Matrix. The program accepts an MxN matrix. Then adds main diagonal of matrix as well as the opposite diagonal of the matrix.

Problem Solution

1. Create a matrix and define its elements.
2. Declare two variables which will store sum of main and opposite diagonal.
3. Now run a single for loop and extract main diagonals elements adding to the first variable and opposite diagonal elements to the second variable.

Program/Source Code

Here is source code of the C program to finds the sum of the main & opposite diagonal elements of a MxN Matrix. The program is successfully compiled and tested using Turbo C compiler in windows environment. The program output is also shown below.

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     * C program to find accept a matrix of order M x N and find

     * the sum of the  main diagonal and off diagonal elements

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     */
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    #include <stdio.h>
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    void main ()
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        static int array[10][10];
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        int i, j, m, n, a = 0, sum = 0;
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        printf("Enetr the order of the matix \n");

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        scanf("%d %d", &m, &n);
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        if (m == n ) 
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        {
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            printf("Enter the co-efficients of the matrix\n");

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            for (i = 0; i < m; ++i)
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            {
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                for (j = 0; j < n; ++j)
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                    scanf("%d", &array[i][j]);

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                }
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            }
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            printf("The given matrix is \n");

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            for (i = 0; i < m; ++i) 
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            {
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                for (j = 0; j < n; ++j)
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                    printf(" %d", array[i][j]);

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                }
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                printf("\n");
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            }
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            for (i = 0; i < m; ++i) 
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                sum = sum + array[i][i];

                a = a + array[i][m - i - 1];

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            }
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            printf("\nThe sum of the main diagonal elements is = %d\n", sum);

            printf("The sum of the off diagonal elements is   = %d\n", a);

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        }
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        else
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            printf("The given order is not square matrix\n");

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    }
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Program Explanation

1. Declare a matrix, taking order as input from users and define all its elements.
2. Declare two variable to store sum of each diagonal elements.
3. Run a for loop wherein the main diagonal element is given by index (i, i) where i is the iterator and opposite diagonal element is given by index(i, total_rows(m)-i-1).
4. The two variables are initialized to 0, which are summed up by diagonal elements.
5. Print the sum of diagonal elements.

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Runtime Test Cases

Enter the order of the matix
2 2
Enter the co-efficients of the matrix
40 30
38 90
The given matrix is
 40 30
 38 90
 
The sum of the main diagonal elements is = 130
The sum of the off diagonal elements is   = 68

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