diff --git a/data-structures/TripletRepresentationofSparseMatrix.cpp b/data-structures/TripletRepresentationofSparseMatrix.cpp
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+++ b/data-structures/TripletRepresentationofSparseMatrix.cpp
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+#include<bits/stdc++.h>
+using namespace std;
+int main()
+{int row,column,i,j;
+printf("enter no. of rows and columns:");
+scanf("%d %d",&row,&column);
+int a[row][column];
+for(i=0;i<row;i++)
+{for(j=0;j<column;j++)
+{printf("enter the element at %d , %d\n",i,j);
+scanf("%d",&a[i][j]);
+}
+}
+int count1=0;
+for(i=0;i<row;i++)
+{for(j=0;j<column;j++)
+{if(a[i][j]!=0)
+count1++;
+}
+}
+int b[count1][3];
+count1=0;
+for(i=0;i<row;i++)
+{for(j=0;j<column;j++)
+{if(a[i][j]!=0)
+{b[count1][0]=i;
+b[count1][1]=j;
+b[count1][2]=a[i][j];
+count1++;
+}
+}
+}
+printf("sparse matrix is:\n");
+for(i=0;i<count1;i++)
+{for(j=0;j<3;j++)
+{printf("%d ",b[i][j]);
+}
+printf("\n");
+}
+return 0;
+}