From 897535e4a09a5e7bdcfd82f2f3027325f0859a18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Devansh Upadhyay <31622038+devanshhu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:44:59 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Added Linear Search function in Java8 (#19214)

---
 .../search-algorithms/linear-search/index.md       | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/client/src/pages/guide/english/algorithms/search-algorithms/linear-search/index.md b/client/src/pages/guide/english/algorithms/search-algorithms/linear-search/index.md
index a95ad1ff147..97561b40d38 100644
--- a/client/src/pages/guide/english/algorithms/search-algorithms/linear-search/index.md
+++ b/client/src/pages/guide/english/algorithms/search-algorithms/linear-search/index.md
@@ -104,6 +104,20 @@ func linearSearch(for number: Int, in array: [Int]) -> Int? {
     return nil // the number was not found in the array
 }
 ```
+
+### Example in Java
+```Java 8
+int linearSearch(int[] arr, int element)
+{
+        for(int i=0;i<arr.length;i++)
+        {
+                if(arr[i] == element)
+                        return i;
+        }
+        return -1;
+}
+
+```
         
 ## Global Linear Search