Infix postfixcoversion
- 2. Infix notation is the common arithmetic and logical formula notation, in which operators are written infix- style between the operands they act on E.g. A + B
- 3. In Postfix notation, the operator comes after the Operand. For example, the Infix expression A+B will be written as AB+ in its Postfix Notation. Postfix is also called ‘Reverse Polish Notation’
- 4. In Prefix notation, the operator comes before the operand. The Infix expression A+B will be written as +AB in its Prefix Notation. Prefix is also called ‘Polish Notation’
- 5. Step1 Scan the Infix expression from left to right for tokens (Operators, Operands & Parentheses) and perform the steps 2 to 5 for each token in the Expression
- 6. Step2 If token is operand, Append it in postfix expression Step3 If token is a left parentheses “(“, push it in stack.
- 7. Step4 If token is an operator, Pop all the operators which are of higher or equal precedence then the incoming token and append them (in the same order) to the output Expression. After popping out all such operators, push the new token on stack.
- 8. Step5 If “)” right parentheses is found, Pop all the operators from the Stack and append them to Output String, till you encounter the Opening Parenthesis “(“. Pop the left parenthesis but don’t append it to the output string (Postfix notation does not have brackets).
- 9. Step6 When all tokens of Infix expression have been scanned. Pop all the elements from the stack and append them to the Output String. The Output string is the Corresponding Postfix Notation.
- 10. Let the incoming the Infix expression be: A * (B + C) – D / E Stage 1: Stack is empty and we only have the Infix Expression.
- 11. Stage 2 The first token is Operand A Operands are Appended to the Output as it is.
- 12. Stage 3 Next token is * Since Stack is empty (top==NULL) it is pushed into the Stack
- 13. Stage 4 Next token is ( the precedence of open-parenthesis, when it is to go inside, is maximum. But when another operator is to come on the top of ‘(‘ then its precedence is least.
- 14. Stage 5 Next token, B is an operand which will go to the Output expression as it is
- 15. Stage 6 Next token, + is operator, We consider the precedence of top element in the Stack, ‘(‘. The outgoing precedence of open parenthesis is the least (refer point 4. Above). So + gets pushed into the Stack
- 16. Stage 7 Next token, C, is appended to the output
- 17. Stage 8 Next token ), means that pop all the elements from Stack and append them to the output expression till we read an opening parenthesis.
- 18. Stage 9 Next token, -, is an operator. The precedence of operator on the top of Stack ‘*‘ is more than that of Minus. So we pop multiply and append it to output expression. Then push minus in the Stack.
- 19. Stage 10 Next, Operand ‘D‘ gets appended to the output.
- 20. Stage 11 Next, we will insert the division operator into the Stack because its precedence is more than that of minus.
- 21. Stage 12 The last token, E, is an operand, so we insert it to the output Expression as it is.
- 22. Stage 13 The input Expression is complete now. So we pop the Stack and Append it to the Output Expression as we pop it.