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Java program to search an item in a Stack collection

Java example to search an item in a Stack collection.
Submitted by Nidhi, on April 24, 2022

Problem statement

In this program, we will create a stack using Stack Collection. Then we will search an item into a stack using the search() method. The search() method returns the position of the item from the TOP of the stack. The index of TOP starts from 1.

Source Code

The source code to search an item in a Stack collection is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Java program to search an item in a 
// Stack collection

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Stack cars = new Stack();
    int pos = 0;

    cars.push("Maruti");
    cars.push("Tata");
    cars.push("Hundai");
    cars.push("Honda");

    pos = cars.search("Honda");
    System.out.println("Position of Honda is: " + pos);
  }
}

Output

Position of Honda is: 1

Explanation

In the above program, we imported the "java.io.*" and "java.util.*" packages to use the Stack collection class. Here, we created a class Main. The Main class contains a main() method. The main() method is the entry point for the program.

In the main() method, we created an object of the Stack collection class to store "car" names. Then we searched for the "Honda" car in the search() method. The search() method returns the position of the item from the TOP of the stack and prints the result.

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