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The document discusses linked lists, their properties, and how to implement them in C++. Key points covered include: - Linked lists allow for dynamic sizes and efficient insertion/deletion by linking nodes together via pointers - Each node contains a data field and pointer to the next node - Traversal involves iterating from node to node via their links - Insertion adds a new node between two existing nodes by adjusting their pointers - Deletion removes a node by adjusting pointers of the preceding and following nodes - Linked lists can be built forward or backward by sequentially adding nodes to the start or end.

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Linked List Slides

The document discusses linked lists, their properties, and how to implement them in C++. Key points covered include: - Linked lists allow for dynamic sizes and efficient insertion/deletion by linking nodes together via pointers - Each node contains a data field and pointer to the next node - Traversal involves iterating from node to node via their links - Insertion adds a new node between two existing nodes by adjusting their pointers - Deletion removes a node by adjusting pointers of the preceding and following nodes - Linked lists can be built forward or backward by sequentially adding nodes to the start or end.

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C++ Programming:

Program Design Including


Data Structures, Fifth Edition

Linked Lists
Objectives
In this chapter, you will:
• Learn about linked lists
• Become aware of the basic properties of
linked lists
• Explore the insertion and deletion operations
on linked lists
• Discover how to build and manipulate a
linked list
• Learn how to construct a doubly linked list

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Introduction
• Data can be organized and processed
sequentially using an array, called a
sequential list
• Problems with an array
– Array size is fixed
– Unsorted array: searching for an item is slow
– Sorted array: insertion and deletion is slow

C++ Programming: Program Design Including Data Structures, Fifth Edition 3


Linked Lists
• Linked list: a list of items (nodes), in which
the order of the nodes is determined by
the address, called the link, stored in each
node

Link field in last node


is NULL
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Linked Lists (cont'd.)
• Because each node of a linked list has two
components, we need to declare each
node as a class or struct
– Data type of a node depends on the specific
application
– The link component of each node is a pointer

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Linked Lists: Some Properties

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Linked Lists: Some Properties
(cont'd.)
• current = head;
– Copies value of head into current

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Linked Lists: Some Properties
(cont'd.)
• current = current->link;

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Traversing a Linked List
• The basic operations of a linked list are:
– Search to determine if an item is in the list
– Insert an item in the list
– Delete an item from the list
• Traversal: given a pointer to the first node
of the list, step through the nodes of the
list

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Traversing a Linked List
(cont'd.)
• To traverse a linked list:

• Example:

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Item Insertion and Deletion
• Consider the following definition of a node:

• We will use the following variable


declaration:

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Insertion
• Consider the following linked list:

• A new node with info 50 is to be created


and inserted after p

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Insertion (cont'd.)

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Insertion (cont'd.)
• Using two pointers, we can simplify the
insertion code somewhat

• To insert newNode between p and q:


The order in which these statements
execute does not matter

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Insertion (cont'd.)

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Deletion

Node with info 34 is removed from the list, but


memory is still occupied; node is dangling
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Deletion (cont’d.)

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Building a Linked List
• If data is unsorted
– The list will be unsorted
• Can build a linked list forward or backward
– Forward: a new node is always inserted at the
end of the linked list
– Backward: a new node is always inserted at
the beginning of the list

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Building a Linked List Forward
• You need three pointers to build the list:
– One to point to the first node in the list, which
cannot be moved
– One to point to the last node in the list
– One to create the new node

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Building a Linked List Forward
(cont’d.)

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Building a Linked List Forward
(cont’d.)

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Building a Linked List Forward
(cont'd.)

We now repeat statements 1 through 6b three more times:

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Building a Linked List Forward
(cont’d.)

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Building a Linked List Backward
• The algorithm is:
– Initialize first to NULL
– For each item in the list
• Create the new node, newNode
• Store the item in newNode
• Insert newNode before first
• Update the value of the pointer first

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