Data Structure Operations
Data are processed by means of certain operations which appearing in the data structure. Data has situation on depends largely on the frequency with which specific operations are performed. This section introduces the reader to some of the most frequently used of these operations.
(1) Traversing: Accessing each records exactly once so that certain items in the record may be processed.
(2) Searching: Finding the location of a particular record with a given key value, or finding the location of all records which satisfy one or more conditions.
(3) Inserting: Adding a new record to the structure.
(4) Deleting: Removing the record from the structure.
(5) Sorting: Managing the data or record in some logical order(Ascending or descending order).
(6) Merging: Combining the record in two different sorted files into a single sorted file.
