Data Structures
Linked Lists
Namiq Sultan
Reference: Vinu V Das, Principles of Data Structures using C and
C++
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Linked Lists
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Linked Lists
• START = NULL if there is no list (i.e.; NULL list or empty list).
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ADVANTAGES OF LINKED LIST
Linked list have many advantages and some of them are:
1. Linked list are dynamic data structure. That is, they can grow or shrink
during the execution of a program.
2. Efficient memory utilization: Memory is allocated whenever it is required.
And it is deallocated when it is not needed.
3. Insertion and deletion are easier and efficient.
4. Many complex applications can be easily carried out with linked list.
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OPERATIONS ON LINKED LISTS
The primitive operations performed on the linked list are as follows
1. Creation
2. Insertion
3. Deletion
4. Traversing
5. Searching
6. Concatenation
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OPERATIONS ON LINKED LISTS
• Creation operation is used to create a linked list.
• Insertion operation is used to insert a new node at any specified location in
the linked list. A new node may be inserted.
(a) At the beginning of the linked list
(b) At the end of the linked list
(c) At any specified position in between in a linked list
• Deletion operation is used to delete a node from the linked list. A node may
be deleted from the
(a) Beginning of a linked list
(b) End of a linked list
(c) Specified location of the linked list
• Traversing is the process of going through all the nodes from one end to
another end of a linked list.
• Concatenation is the process of appending the second list to the end of the
first list.
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TYPES OF LINKED LIST
1. Singly linked list
2. Doubly linked list
3. Circular linked list
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SINGLY LINKED LIST
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SINGLY LINKED LIST
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SINGLY LINKED LIST
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SINGLY LINKED LIST
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ALGORITHM FOR INSERTING A NODE
Suppose
• START is the first position in linked list.
• DATA be the element to be inserted in the new node.
• POS is the position where the new node is to be inserted.
• TEMP is a temporary pointer to hold the node address.
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ALGORITHM FOR INSERTING A NODE
Insert a Node at the beginning
1. Input DATA to be inserted
2. Create a NewNode
3. NewNode → DATA = DATA
4. If (SATRT equal to NULL)
(a) NewNode → Next = NULL
5. Else
(a) NewNode → Next = START
6. START = NewNode
7. Exit
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ALGORITHM FOR INSERTING A NODE
Insert a Node at the end
1. Input DATA to be inserted
2. Create a NewNode
3. NewNode → DATA = DATA
4. NewNode → Next = NULL
8. If (SATRT equal to NULL)
(a) START = NewNode
9. Else
(a) TEMP = START
(b) While (TEMP → Next not equal to NULL)
(i) TEMP = TEMP → Next
10. TEMP → Next = NewNode
11. Exit
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ALGORITHM FOR INSERTING A NODE
Insert a Node at any specified position (POS=1 means insert after
first node. POS=0 not allowed)
1. Input DATA and POS to be inserted
2. initialise TEMP = START; and k = 1
3. Repeat the step 3 while( k is less than POS)
(a) TEMP = TEMP  Next
(b) If (TEMP is equal to NULL)
(i) Display “Node in the list less than the position”
(ii) Exit
(c) k = k + 1
4. Create a New Node
5. NewNode  DATA = DATA
6. NewNode  Next = TEMP → Next
7. TEMP  Next = NewNode
8. Exit
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ALGORITHM FOR DELETING A NODE
Suppose
• START is the first position in linked list. Let
• DATA be the element to be deleted.
• TEMP, HOLD is a temporary pointer to hold the node address.
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ALGORITHM FOR DELETING A NODE
1. Input the DATA to be deleted
2. if ((START → DATA) is equal to DATA)
// Delete first node
(a) TEMP = START
(b) START = START  Next
(c) Set free the node TEMP, which is deleted
(d) Exit
3. HOLD = START
4. while ((HOLD  Next  Next) not equal to NULL)) // Between first & last
(a) if ((HOLD  NEXT  DATA) equal to DATA)
(i) TEMP = HOLD  Next
(ii) HOLD  Next = TEMP  Next
(iii) Set free the node TEMP, which is deleted
(iv) Exit
(b) HOLD = HOLD  Next
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ALGORITHM FOR DELETING A NODE
5. if ((HOLD  next  DATA) = = DATA)
(a) TEMP = HOLD → Next
(b) Set free the node TEMP, which is deleted
(c) HOLD  Next = NULL
(d) Exit
6. Disply “DATA not found”
7. Exit
// last node
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ALGORITHM FOR SEARCHING A NODE
1. Input the DATA to be searched
2. Initialize TEMP = START; POS = 1;
3. Repeat the step 4, 5 and 6 until (TEMP is equal to NULL)
4. If (TEMP  DATA is equal to DATA)
(a) Display “The data is found at POS”
(b) Exit
5. TEMP = TEMP  Next
6. POS = POS+1
7. If (TEMP is equal to NULL)
(a) Display “The data is not found in the list”
8. Exit
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ALGORITHM FOR DISPLAY ALL NODES
1. If (START is equal to NULL)
(a) Display “The list is Empty”
(b) Exit
2. Initialize TEMP = START
3. Repeat the step 4 and 5 until (TEMP = = NULL )
4. Display “TEMP  DATA”
5. TEMP = TEMP  Next
6. Exit
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Programming Linked List
class LinkedList{
//Structure declaration for the node
struct node{
int info;
node *next;
};
//private structure variable declared
node *start;
public:
LinkedList()//Constructor defined
{
start = NULL;
}
//public fucntion declared
void Create_List(int);
void AddAtBeg(int);
void AddAfter(int, int);
void Delete();
void Count();
void Search(int);
void Display();
};
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Programming Linked List
//This function will create a new linked list of elements
void LinkedList::Create_List(int data)
{
node *q, *newNode;
//New node is created with new operator
newNode = new node;
newNode->info = data;
newNode->next = NULL;
if (start == NULL)
//If list is empty
start = newNode;
else {
//Element inserted at the end */
q = start;
while(q->next != NULL)
q = q->next;
q->next = newNode;
}
}/*End of create_list()*/
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Programming Linked List
//following function will add new element at the beginning
void LinkedList::AddAtBeg(int data)
{
node *newNode;
newNode = new node;
newNode->info = data;
newNode->next = start;
start = newNode;
}/*End of addatbeg()*/
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Programming Linked List
//This function will add new element at any specified position
void LinkedList::AddAfter(int data, int pos)
{ node *newNode, *q;
int i;
q = start;
//Finding the position in the linked list to insert
for(i = 0; i<pos-1; i++){
q = q->next;
if(q == NULL) {
cout<<"\n\nThere are less than "<<pos<<" elements" << endl;
return;
}
}/*End of for*/
newNode = new node;
newNode->next = q->next;
newNode->info = data;
q->next = newNode;
}/*End of addafter()*/
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Programming Linked List
void LinkedList::Delete()
{
node *tmp, *q;
int data;
if(start == NULL) {
cout<<"\n\nList is empty"<<endl;
return;
}
cout<<"\n\nEnter the element for deletion : ";
cin>>data;
if(start->info == data){
tmp = start;
start = start->next; //First element deleted
delete(tmp);
return;
}
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Programming Linked List
q = start;
while(q->next->next ! = NULL) {
if(q->next->info == data) { //Element deleted in between
tmp = q->next;
q->next = tmp->next;
delete(tmp);
return;
}
q = q->next;
}/*End of while */
if(q->next->info == data) {
//Last element deleted
tmp = q->next;
delete(tmp);
q->next = NULL;
return;
}
cout<<"\n\nElement "<<data<<" not found"<<endl;
}/*End of del()*/
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Programming Linked List
void LinkedList::Display()
{
// Fill in the code that displays the contents of the linked list
}/*End of display() */
void LinkedList::Count()
{
// Fill in the code that counts the nodes of the linked list
}/*End of count() */
void LinkedList::Search(int data)
{
// Fill in the code that will find the position of a node that holds the ‘data’
}
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Programming Linked List
int main()
{
int choice, n, m, position, i;
LinkedList po;
while(1)
{
cout<<"1.Create List\n";
cout<<"2.Add at beginning\n";
cout<<"3.Add after \n";
cout<<"4.Delete\n";
cout<<"5.Display\n";
cout<<"6.Count\n";
cout<<“7.Search\n";
cout<<“8.Quit\n";
cout<<"\nEnter your choice:";
cin>>choice;
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Programming Linked List
switch(choice) {
case 1:
cout<<"\n\nHow many nodes you want:";
cin>>n;
for(i = 0;i<n;i++)
{
cout<<"\nEnter the element:";
cin>>m;
po.Create_List(m);
}
break;
case 2:
cout<<"\n\nEnter the element:";
cin>>m;
po.AddAtBeg(m);
break;
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Programming Linked List
case 3:
cout<<"\n\nEnter the element:";
cin>>m;
cout<<"\nEnter the position after the inserted element :";
cin>>position;
po.AddAfter(m,position);
break;
case 4:
po.Delete();
break;
case 5:
po.Display();
break;
case 6:
po.Count();
break;
case 7:
cout<<"\n\nEnter the element to be searched:";
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Programming Linked List
cin>>m;
po.Search(m);
break;
case 8:
exit(0);
default:
cout<<"\n\nWrong choice";
}/*End of switch */
}/*End of while */
}
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STACK USING LINKED LIST
PUSH
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STACK USING LINKED LIST
POP
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STACK USING LINKED LIST
ALGORITHM FOR PUSH OPERATION
• TOP is NULL when the stack is empty.
• DATA is the data item to be pushed.
1. Input the DATA to be pushed
2. Creat a New Node
3. NewNode → DATA = DATA
4. NewNode → Next = TOP
5. TOP = NewNode
6. Exit
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STACK USING LINKED LIST
• ALGORITHM FOR POP OPERATION
1. if (TOP is equal to NULL)
(a) Display “The stack is empty”
2. Else
(a) TEMP = TOP
(b) Display “The popped element TOP → DATA”
(c) TOP = TOP → Next
(d) TEMP → Next = NULL
(e) Free the TEMP node
3. Exit
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QUEUE USING LINKED LIST
ADD to queue
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QUEUE USING LINKED LIST
REMOVE from queue
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QUEUE USING LINKED LIST
ALGORITHM FOR PUSHING AN ELEMENT TO A QUEUE
1. Input the DATA element to be pushed
2. Create a New Node
3. NewNode → DATA = DATA
4. NewNode → Next = NULL
5. If(REAR not equal to NULL) // if it is not empty
(a) REAR → next = NewNode
(b) REAR = NewNode
6. Else
REAR = FRONT = NewNode
7. Exit
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QUEUE USING LINKED LIST
ALGORITHM FOR POPPING AN ELEMENT FROM A QUEUE
1. If (FRONT is equal to NULL)
(a) Display “The Queue is empty”
2. Else
(a) Display “The popped element is FRONT → DATA”
(b) If(FRONT is not equal to REAR)
(i ) FRONT = FRONT → Next
(c) Else
(i ) FRONT = NULL
(ii) REAR = NULL
3. Exit
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DOUBLY LINKED LIST
Every nodes in the doubly linked list has three fields:
LeftPointer, RightPointer and DATA.
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REPRESENTATION OF DOUBLY LINKED LIST
• A node in the doubly linked list can be represented with the following
declarations:
struct Node
{
int DATA;
Node * next;
Node * prev;
};
Node * START;
• All operations performed on singly linked list can also be performed
on doubly linked list.
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REPRESENTATION OF DOUBLY LINKED LIST
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CIRCULAR LINKED LIST
• A circular linked list is one, which has no beginning and no end. A singly
linked list can be made a circular linked list by simply storing the address
of the very first node in the linked field of the last node.
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CIRCULAR DOUBLY LINKED LIST
• A circular doubly linked list has both the successor pointer and predecessor
pointer in circular manner.
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