Program for implementing Breadth First Search

/*In graph theory,  Breadth First Search (BFS) is a technique for searching in a graph when search is limited to essentially two operations: (a) visit and inspect a node of a graph; (b) gain access to visit the nodes that neighbor the currently visited node. The BFS begins at a root node and inspects all the neighboring nodes. Then for each of those neighbor nodes in turn, it inspects their neighbor nodes which were unvisited, and so on. */

#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

int a[20][20],q[20],visited[20],n,i,j,f=0,r=-1;

void bfs(int v)

{    for(i=1;i<=n;i++)

     if(a[v][i] && !visited[i])

     q[++r]=i;

     if(f<=r)

     {       visited[q[f]]=1;

             bfs(q[f++]);

     }

}

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int main()

{   int v;

    printf(“\n Enter the number of vertices:”);

    scanf(“%d”,&n);

    for(i=1;i<=n;i++)

    {                q[i]=0;

                     visited[i]=0;

    }

    printf(“\n Enter graph data in matrix form:\n”);

    for(i=1;i<=n;i++)

    {                for(j=1;j<=n;j++)

                     scanf(“%d”,&a[i][j]); }

    printf(“\n Enter the starting vertex:”);

    scanf(“%d”,&v);

    bfs(v);

    printf(“\n The node which are reachable are:\n”);

    for(i=1;i<=n;i++)

    if(visited[i])

    printf(” %d\t”,i);

    else

    printf(“\n Breadth First Search is not possible”);

    getch();

    return 0;

}

Output:

breadth_first_search

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