What is data structure ? Describe some data structure operations.

What is data structure ? Describe some data structure operations.

Answer:

Data structure:  Data may be organized in many different ways. The logical or mathematical model of a particular organization of data its call data structure.

Data structure operations:  The data appearing in our data structure are processed by means of certain operations. Some major operations are:

  Ø  Traversing: Visit every part of the data structure. 

  Ø  Searching: Finding the location of the record with a given key value.

  Ø  Inserting:  Adding a new record to the structure.

  Ø  Deleting:  Remove a record to the structure.

Some operation used in special conditions, like_

Ø  Sorting: Arranging the record in some logical order.

Ø  Merging:  Combining the records in two different sorted files in to a single sorted file.