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8. What is Post-order traversal?

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Post-order traversal is one of the multiple methods to traverse a tree. 

In Post-Order traversal, the root node is visited after left child and right child. In this traversal, left child node is visited first, then its right child and then its root node. This is recursively performed until the right most node is visited.

Algorithm:

Until all nodes are traversed:-

Step 1: Recursively traverse left sub-tree.

Step 2: Recursively traverse right sub-tree.

Step 3: Visit root node

 

E.g.


The post-order traversal output of the given above tree is: H I D E B F G C A

C function for post-order traversing:

Let pRoot is a given pointer to a root node of a binary tree. 

void post-order(BiNodeType *pRoot)

{

if(root!=NULL)

{

postorder(pRoot->left);

postorder(pRoot->right);

printf(ā€œ%dā€, pRoot->info);

}

}