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

Recursive way(variant of Stefan answer)

 MergeList(Node nodeA, Node nodeB ){
        if(nodeA==null){return nodeB};
        if(nodeB==null){return nodeA};

    if(nodeB.data

Consider below linked list to visualize this

2>4 list A 1>3 list B

Almost same answer(non recursive) as Stefan but with little more comments/meaningful variable name. Also covered double linked list in comments if someone is interested

Consider the example

5->10->15>21 // List1

2->3->6->20 //List2

Node MergeLists(List list1, List list2) {
  if (list1 == null) return list2;
  if (list2 == null) return list1;

if(list1.head.data>list2.head.data){
  listB =list2; // loop over this list as its head is smaller
  listA =list1;
} else {
  listA =list2; // loop over this list
  listB =list1;
}


listB.currentNode=listB.head;
listA.currentNode=listA.head;

while(listB.currentNode!=null){

  if(listB.currentNode.data