LeetCode题解-21. 合并两个有序链表

题目描述

将两个有序链表合并为一个新的有序链表并返回。新链表是通过拼接给定的两个链表的所有节点组成的。

示例:

输入:1->2->4, 1->3->4

输出: 1->1->2->3->4->4

思路

依次遍历两个链表,比较大小,将小的那个节点连接到新链表上即可。

解法1

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public static ListNode mergeTwoLists(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
if (l1 == null) return l2;
if (l2 == null) return l1;
ListNode dummy = new ListNode(-1);
ListNode nHead = dummy;
while (l1 != null && l2 != null) {
if (l1.val < l2.val) {
dummy.next = new ListNode(l1.val);
l1 = l1.next;
dummy = dummy.next;
} else if (l1.val == l2.val) {
dummy.next = new ListNode(l1.val);
dummy.next.next = new ListNode(l1.val);
dummy = dummy.next.next;
l1 = l1.next;
l2 = l2.next;
} else {
dummy.next = new ListNode(l2.val);
l2 = l2.next;
dummy = dummy.next;
}
}
if (l1 == null) {
dummy.next = l2;
}
if (l2 == null) {
dummy.next = l1;
}
return nHead.next;
}

解法2

比起解法1,解法2的优势在于没有创建新的节点。

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public static ListNode mergeTwoLists(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
if (l1 == null) return l2;
if (l2 == null) return l1;
ListNode dummy = new ListNode(-1);
ListNode nHead = dummy;
while (l1 != null && l2 != null) {
if (l1.val <= l2.val) {
dummy.next = l1;
l1 = l1.next;
} else {
dummy.next = l2;
l2 = l2.next;
}
dummy = dummy.next;
}
dummy.next = l1 == null ? l2 : l1;
return nHead.next;
}

解法3

在此题的题解里看到递归的解法,非常简洁,记录一下。

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public static ListNode mergeTwoLists3(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
if (l1 == null) return l2;
if (l2 == null) return l1;
if (l1.val < l2.val) {
l1.next = mergeTwoLists3(l1.next, l2);
return l1;
} else {
l2.next = mergeTwoLists3(l1, l2.next);
return l2;
}
}