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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Reverse a Linked-List

Q:

Reverse a Linked-list. Write code in C.

A:

Recursive solution:

Node * reverse( Node * ptr , Node * previous)
{
Node * temp;
if(ptr->next == NULL) {
ptr->next = previous;
return ptr;
} else {
temp = reverse(ptr->next, ptr);
ptr->next = previous;
return temp;
}
}
reversedHead = reverse(head, NULL);

Non-recursive solution:

Node * reverse( Node * ptr )
{
Node * temp;
Node * previous = NULL;
while(ptr != NULL) {
temp = ptr->next;
ptr->next = previous;
previous = ptr;
ptr = temp;
}
return previous;
}

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