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

// Common code for insert at the end
        private void insertEnd(int data) {
                Node newNode = new Node(data);
                if (head == null) {
                    newNode.next = head;
                    head = tail = newNode;
                    return;
                }
                Node tempNode = tail;
                tempNode.next = newNode;
                tail = newNode;
            }

    private void mergerTwoSortedListInAscOrder(Node tempNode1, Node tempNode2) {

            if (tempNode1 == null && tempNode2 == null)
                return;
            if (tempNode1 == null) {
                head3 = tempNode2;
                return;
            }
            if (tempNode2 == null) {
                head3 = tempNode1;
                return;
            }

            while (tempNode1 != null && tempNode2 != null) {

                if (tempNode1.mData < tempNode2.mData) {
                    insertEndForHead3(tempNode1.mData);
                    tempNode1 = tempNode1.next;
                } else if (tempNode1.mData > tempNode2.mData) {
                    insertEndForHead3(tempNode2.mData);
                    tempNode2 = tempNode2.next;
                } else {
                    insertEndForHead3(tempNode1.mData);
                    insertEndForHead3(tempNode2.mData);
                    tempNode1 = tempNode1.next;
                    tempNode2 = tempNode2.next;
                }

            }
            if (tempNode1 != null) {
                while (tempNode1 != null) {
                    insertEndForHead3(tempNode1.mData);
                    tempNode1 = tempNode1.next;
                }
            }
            if (tempNode2 != null) {
                while (tempNode2 != null) {
                    insertEndForHead3(tempNode2.mData);
                    tempNode2 = tempNode2.next;
                }
            }
        }

:)GlbMP