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Stacks

7 min · C examples

Last-in-first-out structure for matching brackets, undo logic, and monotonic scans.

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A stack is like a pile of plates: you push on top and pop from the top. In C, a plain array with a top index works great — stack[top++] = x to push, stack[--top] to pop.

Classic use: walk a string of brackets and push opens; on a close, pop and check they match.

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