public class largest_in_array
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
            int array [] = {23,35,67,76,34};
            System.out.println("The largest number in the array is: ");
            System.out.println(array[largest(array, 0, 0)]);
        }

        public static int largest(int array[], int maxIndex, int i)
         {
                int ans = 0;

                if(i == array.length-1)
                {
                    ans = maxIndex;
                }
                else
                {
                    ans = largest(array, (Math.max(array[maxIndex], array[i]) == array[maxIndex]) ? maxIndex : i, ++i);
                }
                    return ans;

         }
}

ans = largest(array, (Math.max(array[maxIndex], array[i]) == array[maxIndex]) ? maxIndex : i, ++i);