In a Directed Acyclic Graph, we can sort vertices in linear order using topological sort.
Topological sort is only work on Directed Acyclic Graph. In a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), there can be more than one topological sort.
In the following C++ program, we shall perform topological sort to check existence of a cycle in a graph.
Algorithms
For function Topo_Sort
Begin
Define function Topo_Sort()
Declare x to the integer datatype, vstd[] of the Boolean array and Stack as a stack.
Pass them as parameter.
Initialize vstd[x] = true to mark the current node as vstd.
Declare an iterator i.
for (i = a[x].begin(); i != a[x].end(); ++i)
if (!vstd[*i]) then
Call Topo_Sort(*i, vstd, Stack) function.
Call push() function to insert values into stack.
End.
Example
#include<iostream>
#include <list>
#include <stack>
using namespace std;
class grph { // Class to represent a graph
int ver;
list<int> *a; // Pointer to an array containing adjacency listsList
void Topo_Sort(int x, bool vstd[], stack<int> &Stack); // A function used by TopologicalSort
public:
grph(int ver); // Constructor of grpf
void Insert_Edge(int x, int y); // to insert an edge to graph
void Topol_Sort(); // prints a Topological Sort of the complete graph
};
grph::grph(int ver) {
this->ver = ver;
a = new list<int>[ver];
}
void grph::Insert_Edge(int x, int y) {
a[x].push_back(y); // Add y to x’s list.
}
// A recursive function used by Topol_Sort
void grph::Topo_Sort(int x, bool vstd[], stack<int> &Stack) {
vstd[x] = true; // Mark the current node as vstd.
list<int>::iterator i;
for (i = a[x].begin(); i != a[x].end(); ++i)
if (!vstd[*i])
Topo_Sort(*i, vstd, Stack);
// Push current vertex to stack which stores result
Stack.push(x);
}
void grph::Topol_Sort() {
stack<int> Stack;
// Mark all the vertices as not vstd
bool *vstd = new bool[ver];
for (int i = 0; i < ver; i++)
vstd[i] = false;
for (int i = 0; i < ver; i++)
if (vstd[i] == false)
Topo_Sort(i, vstd, Stack);
while (Stack.empty() == false) {
cout << Stack.top() << " ";
Stack.pop();
}
}
int main() {
grph g(6); // Create a graph given in the above diagram
g.Insert_Edge(5, 2);
g.Insert_Edge(5, 0);
g.Insert_Edge(4, 0);
g.Insert_Edge(4, 1);
g.Insert_Edge(2, 3);
g.Insert_Edge(3, 1);
cout << "Topological Sort of the graph is: \n";
g.Topol_Sort();
return 0;
}
Output
Topological Sort of the graph is:
5 4 2 3 1 0