MIT-Curricular/DS/C/Lab/Week7/XYZLL.c

83 lines
1.7 KiB
C
Raw Permalink Normal View History

2024-09-17 02:25:54 +05:30
// Let X = (x1, x2….xn) and Y = (y1, y2….yn) be 2 linked lists. Assume that, in each list,
// the nodes are in non-decreasing order of the data field values. Write an algorithm to
// merge two lists to obtain a new linked list Z in which the nodes are also in the non-
// decreasing order. Following the merge, X and Y do not exist as individual lists. Each
// node initially in X or Y is now in Z. Do not use additional nodes.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct node *nodePtr;
struct node {
int data;
nodePtr link;
};
nodePtr merge(nodePtr x, nodePtr y)
{
nodePtr z, temp;
if (!x) return y;
if (!y) return x;
if (x->data <= y->data) {
z = x;
x = x->link;
} else {
z = y;
y = y->link;
}
temp = z;
while (x && y) {
if (x->data <= y->data) {
temp->link = x;
x = x->link;
} else {
temp->link = y;
y = y->link;
}
temp = temp->link;
}
if (x) temp->link = x;
if (y) temp->link = y;
return z;
}
void printList(nodePtr head)
{
while (head) {
printf("%d ", head->data);
head = head->link;
}
printf("\n");
}
nodePtr createNode(int data)
{
nodePtr newNode = (nodePtr)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
newNode->data = data;
newNode->link = NULL;
return newNode;
}
int main()
{
nodePtr x = createNode(1);
x->link = createNode(3);
x->link->link = createNode(5);
nodePtr y = createNode(2);
y->link = createNode(4);
y->link->link = createNode(6);
printf("List X: ");
printList(x);
printf("List Y: ");
printList(y);
nodePtr z = merge(x, y);
printf("Merged list Z: ");
printList(z);
return 0;
}