Easy
Write a program to find the node at which the intersection of two singly linked lists begins.
For example, the following two linked lists:
A: a1 → a2
↘
c1 → c2 → c3
↗
B: b1 → b2 → b3
begin to intersect at node c1.
Notes:
- If the two linked lists have no intersection at all, return null.
- The linked lists must retain their original structure after the function returns.
- You may assume there are no cycles anywhere in the entire linked structure.
- Your code should preferably run in O(n) time and use only O(1) memory.
这道题一开始想的是先reverse两个LinkedList, 但是后来发现返回的时候可能还要reverse回去,这样一来一去不知道多麻烦。然后看了答案的方法,就很简单明确。先让两个LinkedLists从相同长度出发,然后开始同速前进。遇到第一个相同val的节点就返回过来。
/**
* Definition for singly-linked list.
* public class ListNode {
* int val;
* ListNode next;
* ListNode(int x) {
* val = x;
* next = null;
* }
* }
*/
public class Solution {
public ListNode getIntersectionNode(ListNode headA, ListNode headB) {
int lenA = getLen(headA);
int lenB = getLen(headB);
int diff = Math.abs(lenA - lenB);
if (lenA > lenB){
headA = moveListNSteps(headA, diff);
} else if (lenB > lenA){
headB = moveListNSteps(headB, diff);
}
while (headA != null && headB != null){
if (headA.val == headB.val){
return headA;
}
headA = headA.next;
headB = headB.next;
}
return null;
}
private int getLen(ListNode head){
int len = 0;
while (head != null){
head = head.next;
len++;
}
return len;
}
private ListNode moveListNSteps(ListNode head, int n){
int step = 0;
while (step < n){
head = head.next;
step++;
}
return head;
}
}