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

Here is the code on how to merge two sorted linked lists headA and headB:

Node* MergeLists1(Node *headA, Node* headB)
{
    Node *p = headA;
    Node *q = headB;
    Node *result = NULL; 
    Node *pp = NULL;
    Node *qq = NULL;
    Node *head = NULL;
    int value1 = 0;
    int value2 = 0;
    if((headA == NULL) && (headB == NULL))
    {
        return NULL;
    }
    if(headA==NULL)
    {
        return headB;
    }
    else if(headB==NULL)
    {
        return headA;
    }
    else
    {
        while((p != NULL) || (q != NULL))
        {
            if((p != NULL) && (q != NULL))
            {
                int value1 = p->data;
                int value2 = q->data;
                if(value1 <= value2)
                {
                    pp = p->next;
                    p->next = NULL;
                    if(result == NULL)
                    {
                        head = result = p;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        result->next = p;
                        result = p;
                    }
                    p = pp;
                }
                else
                {
                    qq = q->next;
                    q->next = NULL;
                    if(result == NULL)
                    {
                        head = result = q;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        result->next = q;
                        result = q;
                    }
                    q = qq;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if(p != NULL)
                {
                    pp = p->next;
                    p->next = NULL;
                    result->next = p;
                    result = p;
                    p = pp;
                }
                if(q != NULL)
                {
                    qq = q->next;
                    q->next = NULL;
                    result->next = q;
                    result = q;
                    q = qq;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return head;
}