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Saturday 10 September 2011

Operation on Data Strucutures

In order to process elements of a data strucutre some kind of operation is required. A basic operation involves creating a data structure, and reserving storage space for the elements.
A another operation is deleting the data structure, which removed the data items and releases the allocated storage space.

Other common operation are: inserting, sorting, searching, merging, traversing.

Inserting: involves adding a data item in a specified position
Sorting is arranging of data items in specific order
Searching means finding an item which matches with a given key
Merging involves combining two sets of data items with according to some criterion
Traversing means accessing each element of a data strucutre


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