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 MergeLists(Node list1, Node list2) {
    //if list is null return other list 
   if(list1 == null)
   {
      return list2;
   }
   else if(list2 == null)
   {
      return list1;
   }
   else
   {
        Node head;
        //Take head pointer to the node which has smaller first data node
        if(list1.data < list2.data)
        {
            head = list1;
            list1 = list1.next;
        }
        else
        {
           head = list2;
           list2 = list2.next;
        }
        Node current = head;
        //loop till both list are not pointing to null
        while(list1 != null || list2 != null)
        {
            //if list1 is null, point rest of list2 by current pointer 
            if(list1 == null){
               current.next = list2;
               return head;
            }
            //if list2 is null, point rest of list1 by current pointer 
            else if(list2 == null){
               current.next = list1;
               return head;
            }
            //compare if list1 node data is smaller than list2 node data, list1 node will be
            //pointed by current pointer
            else if(list1.data < list2.data)
            {
                current.next = list1;
                current = current.next;
                list1 = list1.next;
            }
            else
            {
                current.next = list2;
                current = current.next;
                list2 = list2.next;
            }
        }      
    return head;
    }      
}