Stack in Sata Structure

Stacks
• Stack: what is it?
• ADT
• Applications
• Implementation(s)

ABSTRACT DATA TYPE
A list could be described by the type of information that it holds and by the
operations that can be performed on the list. In this sense the list is an example of
an ABSTRACT DATA TYPE. It is possible to think about a list without knowing the
details of how it is implemented. An ABSTRACT DATA TYPE (ADT) has a set of rules
(behaviour) and attributes imposed upon it that reflect a real world object.
Eg. A waiting queue at a bank or cinema has some clearly defined rules:
• The queue contains customers.
• Customers join the rear of the queue.
• Customers leave from the front of the queue.
• Customers leave the queue in the order in which they joined it.
• The queue can be empty.
It is quite sensible to talk about the abstract properties of a queue without
concerning ourselves about the implementation of a computer model for the
queue.

LINEAR DATA STRUCTURES
All data structures introduced thus far are
special subclasses of linear lists. There are two
ways of storing data structures in the
computer’s memory. The first of these
storage-allocation methods, which takes
advantage of the one-dimensional property of
the computer’s memory, is called sequential
allocation.

LINEAR DATA STRUCTURES
The second allocation method, which is based on the
storage of the address or location of each element in
the list, is known as linked allocation. Both methods
of allocation are discussed in detail in this section.
Several subclasses of linear lists can be defined. The
most important of these subclasses are called stacks
and queues.

LINEAR DATA STRUCTURES (STACK)
One of the most important subclasses of linear lists is
the family of stack structure. In this section we first
introduce the concepts associated with this subclass
of linear structures. Next, several important
operations, such as insertion and deletion, for the
stack structure are given. In particular, we describe
the implementation of these operations for a stack
that is represented by a vector.

Stack Abstract Data Type (ADT)
• A stack is a special case of a list.
• Rather than being allowed to insert a new item into the list at
any place, additions to a stack are restricted to one end
identified as the top of the stack.
• Deletions from the stack are also restricted to the top of the
stack.
• Usually, only the item at the top of the stack is accessible to
someone using the stack ADT.
• A stack is often referred to as a FILO (First In Last Out) list. The
stack only allows addition and removal from of the top
element so the order of removal is the opposite to that of
addition.

What is a stack?
• Stores a set of elements in a particular order
• Stack principle: LAST IN FIRST OUT
• = LIFO
• It means: the last element inserted is the first
one to be removed
• Example
• Which is the first element to pick up?

Last In First Out
B
A
D
C
B
A
C
B
A
D
C
B
A
E
D
C
B
A
top
top
top
top
top
A

Stack Applications
• Real life
– Pile of books
– Plate trays
• More applications related to computer
science
– Program execution stack (read more from your
text)
– Evaluating expressions

Application
• Word processors, editors, etc:
– Can implement undo operations
• At runtime:
– Runtime system uses a stack to keep track of
function calls and returns, which variables are
currently accessible, etc(activation records)

Applications of Stack
• Reversing the string
– push each character on to a stack as it is read.
– When the line is finished, we then pop characters
off the stack, and they will come off in the reverse
order.

Stack Operations
Stack Create an empty stack
~Stack Destroy an existing stack
isEmpty Determine whether the stack is empty
isFull Determine whether the stack is full
push Add an item to the top of the stack
pop Remove the item most recently added
Peek/top Retrieve the item most recently added
Clear Clears the contents of stack

Stack Implementation
• Static Implementation
(Using arrays)
• Dynamic Implementation
(Using dynamic lists)

Stack Implementation Using Arrays
• For the static implementation of stack an array
will be used.
• This array will hold the stack elements.
• The top of a stack is represented by an integer
type variable which contains the index of an
array containing top element of a stack.

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3
2
1
0
Empty stack
StackSize = 5
top = -1
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top
Push 7
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top
Push 8
Push 9
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4
top
Push 4
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43
4
top
Push 5
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top
top = StackSize – 1,
Stack is full,
We can’t push more elements.

Stack using an Array
top
2
5
7
1
2 5 7 1
0 1 32 4
top = 3

push(element)
{
if (top == StackSize – 1)
cout<<“stack is full”;
else
Stack[++top] = element;
}

4
3
2
1
0
Empty stack
top = -1
We can’t pop mpre
elements
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top
Pop
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top
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top
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top
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top
top = StackSize – 1,
Stack is full,
We can’t push more elements.
Pop
Pop Pop Pop

pop()
{
if (top == –1)
cout<<“stack is empty”;
else
return Stack[top--];
}

topElement() //returns the top element of stack
//without removing it.
{
if (top == –1)
else
return Stack[top];
}

isEmpty() //checks stack is empty or not
{
if (top == –1)
return true
else
return false
}

template <class Element_Type>
class Stack
{
private:
/* This variable is used to indicate stack is
full or not*/
unsigned int Full_Stack;
/* This variable is used to indicate top of
the stack */
int Top_of_Stack;
/* This pointer points to the array which
behaves as stack, the space for this array is
allocated dynamically */
Element_Type *Stack_Array
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//This constructor creates a stack.
Stack(unsigned int Max_Size)
{
Full_Stack = Max_Size;
Top_of_Stack = -1;
Stack_Array = new Element_Type[Max_Size];
}
/* This Destructor frees the dynamically allocated
space to the array */
~Stack()
{
delete Stack_Array;
}

/*This function Return TRUE if the stack is full, FALSE otherwise.*/
bool Is_Full()
{ if (Top_of_Stack == Full_Stack-1)
returns True;
else
returns False;
}
/*This function Return TRUE if the stack is empty, FALSE otherwise.*/
bool Is_Empty()
{ if(Top_of_Stack == -1)
returns True;
else
returns False;
}

// If stack is not full then push an element x in it
void Push(Element_Type x)
{ if(is_Full())
cout<<“stack is full”;
else
Stack_Array[++Top_of_Stack] = x;
}
//if Stack is not empty then pop an element form it
Element_Type pop()
{ if(is_Empty())
else
return Stack_Array[Top_of_Stack--];
}

// This function makes the stack empty
void Make_Empty()
{ Top_of_Stack = -1;
}
/* This function returns the top element of stack */
Element_Type Top()
{
if(is_Empty())
cout<<“stack is emepty”;
else
return Stack_Array[Top_of_Stack];
}
};

Stack Using Linked List
• We can avoid the size limitation of a stack
implemented with an array by using a
linked list to hold the stack elements.
• As with array, however, we need to decide
where to insert elements in the list and
where to delete them so that push and pop
will run the fastest.

• For a singly-linked list, insert at start or end
takes constant time using the head and current
pointers respectively.
• Removing an element at the start is constant
time but removal at the end required traversing
the list to the node one before the last.
• Make sense to place stack elements at the start
of the list because insert and removal are
constant time.

• No need for the current pointer; head is enough.
top
2
5
7
1
1 7 5 2
head

Stack Operation: List
int pop()
{
int x = head->get();
Node* p = head;
head = head->getNext();
delete p;
return x;
}
top
2
5
7
1 7 5 2
head

void push(int x)
{
Node* newNode = new Node();
newNode->set(x);
newNode->setNext(head);
head = newNode;
}
top
2
5
7
9
7 5 2
head
push(9)
9
newNode

int top()
{
return head->get();
}
int IsEmpty()
{
return ( head == NULL );
}
• All four operations take constant time.

Stack: Array or List
• Since both implementations support stack
operations in constant time, any reason to
choose one over the other?
• Allocating and deallocating memory for list
nodes does take more time than preallocated
array.
• List uses only as much memory as required by
the nodes; array requires allocation ahead of
time.
• List pointers (head, next) require extra memory.
• Array has an upper limit; List is limited by
dynamic memory allocation.

Use of Stack
• Example of use: prefix, infix, postfix
expressions.
• Consider the expression A+B: we think of
applying the operator “+” to the operands
A and B.
• “+” is termed a binary operator: it takes
two operands.
• Writing the sum as A+B is called the infix
form of the expression.

Prefix, Infix, Postfix
• Two other ways of writing the expression
are
+ A B prefix
A B + postfix
• The prefixes “pre” and “post” refer to the
position of the operator with respect to the
two operands.

• Consider the infix expression
A + B * C
• We “know” that multiplication is done
before addition.
• The expression is interpreted as
A + ( B * C )
• Multiplication has precedence over
addition.

• Conversion to postfix
A + ( B * C ) infix form

A + ( B C * ) convert multiplication

A ( B C * ) + convert addition

A ( B C * ) + convert addition
A B C * + postfix form

(A + B ) * C infix form

( A B + ) * C convert addition

( A B + ) C * convert multiplication

( A B + ) C * convert multiplication
A B + C * postfix form

Precedence of Operators
• The five binary operators are: addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division and
exponentiation.
• The order of precedence is (highest to
lowest)
• Exponentiation 
• Multiplication/division *, /
• Addition/subtraction +, -

Precedence of Operators
• For operators of same precedence, the
left-to-right rule applies:
A+B+C means (A+B)+C.
• For exponentiation, the right-to-left rule
applies
A  B  C means A  ( B  C )

Infix to Postfix
Infix Postfix
A + B A B +
12 + 60 – 23 12 60 + 23 –
(A + B)*(C – D ) A B + C D – *
A  B * C – D + E/F A B  C*D – E F/+

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