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How to Reverse a Linked List

Hey everyone, welcome to another article on Linked List. Till now we have covered various operations on linked list and in this article, we would be unraveling another operation on Linked List to understand this data structure in a much deeper way. The problem statement of this article is: How to Reverse a Linked List.
Algorithm for reversing a Linked List iteratively:

There can be a several approaches to solve this problem, but in this article we would be restricting ourselves to iterative approach.

1. Create three nodes, ‘prev’, ‘curr’ and ‘next’.

      2.       Assign:

·         ‘prev’ as ‘NULL’

·         ‘curr’ as ‘head’

·         ‘next’ as ‘NULL’

      3.       Create a while loop with condition curr not equal to null. In each iteration:

·         ‘next’ is assigned with curr.next

·         ‘curr’ is made to point towards ‘prev’

·         Assign ‘prev’ with ‘curr’

·         Assign ‘curr’ with ‘next’

      4.       After the while loop terminates the previous node, contains the head of the linked list.

       Let's Implement this in the form of code:

Source Code:

reverse( ) function



In the above code, the reverse() function received head of the linked list as the parameter. First of all, inside the function base case is checked, if head is equal to null or head is pointing towards null then the functions should return. If the base case is not true, 3 pointers are allotted with the values null, head and null. The three pointers are 'previous', 'current', and 'next' (see the above code). After this, while loop starts which terminates when current is equal to null. Inside the while loop, firstly, 'next' is assigned with the node which is next to 'current'. Secondly, 'current' is made to point towards previous. Thirdly, 'previous' is assigned with the node 'current'. Lastly, 'current' is assigned with next 'node'.

After the while loop terminates, the function returns 'previous' node.

Output:



Working:

Here is the handwritten explanation of the above reversing algorithm:


Hope you liked this explanation, for any doubt/feedback/improvements/corrections you can comment down in the comment section.

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