Interview Question: Merge two sorted singly linked lists without creating new nodes

Question

This is a programming question asked during a written test for an interview. \"You have two singly linked lists that are already sorted, you have to merge them and return a

Answer 1

Node mergeList(Node h1, Node h2) {
    if (h1 == null) return h2;
    if (h2 == null) return h1;
    Node head;
    if (h1.data < h2.data) {
        head = h1;
    } else {
        head = h2;
        h2 = h1;
        h1 = head;
    }

    while (h1.next != null && h2 != null) {
        if (h1.next.data < h2.data) {
            h1 = h1.next;
        } else {
            Node afterh2 = h2.next;
            Node afterh1 = h1.next;
            h1.next = h2;
            h2.next = afterh1;

            if (h2.next != null) {
                h2 = afterh2;
            }
        }
    }
    return head;
}