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Stack example in Java - push(), pop(), empty(), search()

By: Henry  

Stack is a subclass of Vector that implements a standard last-in, first-out stack. Stack only defines the default constructor, which creates an empty stack. Stack includes all the methods defined by Vector, and adds several of its own.

To put an object on the top of the stack, call push(). To remove and return the top element, call pop(). An EmptyStackException is thrown if you call pop( ) when the invoking stack is empty. You can use peek( ) to return, but not remove, the top object.

The empty() method returns true if nothing is on the stack. The search() method determines whether an object exists on the stack, and returns the number of pops that are required to bring it to the top of the stack. Here is an example that creates a stack, pushes several Integer objects onto it, and then pops them off again:

// Demonstrate the Stack class.
import java.util.*;
class StackDemo {
static void showpush(Stack st, int a) {
st.push(new Integer(a));
System.out.println("push(" + a + ")");
System.out.println("stack: " + st);
}
static void showpop(Stack st) {
System.out.print("pop -> ");
Integer a = (Integer) st.pop();
System.out.println(a);
System.out.println("stack: " + st);
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
Stack st = new Stack();
System.out.println("stack: " + st);
showpush(st, 42);
showpush(st, 66);
showpush(st, 99);
showpop(st);
showpop(st);
showpop(st);
try {
showpop(st);
} catch (EmptyStackException e) {
System.out.println("empty stack");
}
}
}

The following is the output produced by the program; notice how the exception handler for EmptyStackException is caught so that you can gracefully handle a stack underflow:

stack: [ ]
push(42)
stack: [42]
push(66)
stack: [42, 66]
push(99)
stack: [42, 66, 99]
pop -> 99
stack: [42, 66]
pop -> 66
stack: [42]
pop -> 42
stack: [ ]
pop -> empty stack




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