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

Simple code in javascript to merge two linked list inplace.

function mergeLists(l1, l2) {
    let head = new ListNode(0); //dummy
    let curr = head;
    while(l1 && l2) {
        if(l2.val >= l1.val) {
            curr.next = l1;
            l1 = l1.next;
        } else {
            curr.next = l2;
            l2=l2.next
        }
        curr = curr.next;
    }
    if(!l1){
        curr.next=l2;
    }
    if(!l2){
        curr.next=l1;
    } 
    return head.next;
}