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

void printLL(){
    NodeLL cur = head;
    if(cur.getNext() == null){
        System.out.println("LL is emplty");
    }else{
        //System.out.println("printing Node");
        while(cur.getNext() != null){
            cur = cur.getNext();
            System.out.print(cur.getData()+ " ");

        }
    }
    System.out.println();
}

void mergeSortedList(NodeLL node1, NodeLL node2){
    NodeLL cur1 = node1.getNext();
    NodeLL cur2 = node2.getNext();

    NodeLL cur = head;
    if(cur1 == null){
        cur = node2;
    }

    if(cur2 == null){
        cur = node1;
    }       
    while(cur1 != null && cur2 != null){

        if(cur1.getData() <= cur2.getData()){
            cur.setNext(cur1);
            cur1 = cur1.getNext();
        }
        else{
            cur.setNext(cur2);
            cur2 = cur2.getNext();
        }
        cur = cur.getNext();
    }       
    while(cur1 != null){
        cur.setNext(cur1);
        cur1 = cur1.getNext();
        cur = cur.getNext();
    }       
    while(cur2 != null){
        cur.setNext(cur2);
        cur2 = cur2.getNext();
        cur = cur.getNext();
    }       
    printLL();      
}