What is a data structure?

Answer Posted / suman tiwari aka nips

Data structure can be defined in many ways.

Different operations performed on data with the help of some
working mechanism or rule is Data structure.

In book of D. Samanta., It has been defined as Triplet(DFA)
D is a set of data object
F is a set functions and
A is a set of rules to implement the functions

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