- Data Structures & Algorithms
- DSA - Home
- DSA - Overview
- DSA - Environment Setup
- Algorithm
- DSA - Algorithms Basics
- DSA - Asymptotic Analysis
- DSA - Greedy Algorithms
- DSA - Divide and Conquer
- DSA - Dynamic Programming
- Data Structures
- DSA - Data Structure Basics
- DSA - Data Structures and Types
- DSA - Array Data Structure
- Linked Lists
- DSA - Linked List Basics
- DSA - Doubly Linked List
- DSA - Circular Linked List
- Stack & Queue
- DSA - Stack
- DSA - Expression Parsing
- DSA - Queue
- Searching Techniques
- DSA - Linear Search
- DSA - Binary Search
- DSA - Interpolation Search
- DSA - Hash Table
- Sorting Techniques
- DSA - Sorting Algorithms
- DSA - Bubble Sort
- DSA - Insertion Sort
- DSA - Selection Sort
- DSA - Merge Sort
- DSA - Shell Sort
- DSA - Quick Sort
- Graph Data Structure
- DSA - Graph Data Structure
- DSA - Depth First Traversal
- DSA - Breadth First Traversal
- Tree Data Structure
- DSA - Tree Data Structure
- DSA - Tree Traversal
- DSA - Binary Search Tree
- DSA - AVL Tree
- DSA - Red Black Trees
- DSA - B Trees
- DSA - B+ Trees
- DSA - Splay Trees
- DSA - Spanning Tree
- DSA - Tries
- DSA - Heap
- Recursion
- DSA - Recursion Basics
- DSA - Tower of Hanoi
- DSA - Fibonacci Series
- DSA Useful Resources
- DSA - Questions and Answers
- DSA - Quick Guide
- DSA - Useful Resources
- DSA - Discussion
Data Structure - Search Techniques
Searching in data-strucutre refers to the process of finding a desired element in set of items. The desired element is called "target". The set of items to be searched in, can be any data-structure like − list, array, linked-list, tree or graph.
Search refers to locating a desired element of specified properties in a collection of items. We are going to start our discussion using following commonly used and simple search algorithms.
| S.No. | Technique & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Linear Search
Linear search searches all items and its worst execution time is n where n is the number of items. |
| 2 | Binary Search
Binary search requires items to be in sorted order but its worst execution time is constant and is much faster than linear search. |
| 3 | Interpolation Search
Interpolation search requires items to be in sorted order but its worst execution time is O(n) where n is the number of items and it is much faster than linear search. |
