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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Develop a program to reverse a linked list iteratively and recursively in C




#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

// Structure for a node in the singly linked list
struct Node {
    int data;
    struct Node* next;
};

// Function to create a new node
struct Node* createNode(int data) {
    struct Node* newNode = (struct Node*)malloc(sizeof(struct Node));
    if (newNode == NULL) {
        printf("Memory allocation failed!\n");
        exit(1);
    }
    newNode->data = data;
    newNode->next = NULL;
    return newNode;
}

// Function to insert a node at the end of the list
void insertAtEnd(struct Node** head, int data) {
    struct Node* newNode = createNode(data);
    if (*head == NULL) {
        *head = newNode;
        return;
    }
    struct Node* temp = *head;
    while (temp->next != NULL) {
        temp = temp->next;
    }
    temp->next = newNode;
}

// Function to display the linked list
void displayList(struct Node* head) {
    if (head == NULL) {
        printf("List is empty\n");
        return;
    }
    printf("Linked List: ");
    struct Node* temp = head;
    while (temp != NULL) {
        printf("%d -> ", temp->data);
        temp = temp->next;
    }
    printf("NULL\n");
}

// Iterative function to reverse the linked list
void reverseIterative(struct Node** head) {
    struct Node *prev = NULL, *current = *head, *next = NULL;
    while (current != NULL) {
        // Store next
        next = current->next;
        // Reverse current node's pointer
        current->next = prev;
        // Move pointers one position ahead
        prev = current;
        current = next;
    }
    *head = prev;
    printf("Linked list reversed iteratively\n");
}

// Recursive function to reverse the linked list
struct Node* reverseRecursiveUtil(struct Node* current, struct Node* prev) {
    if (current == NULL) {
        return prev;
    }
    // Store next
    struct Node* next = current->next;
    // Reverse current node's pointer
    current->next = prev;
    // Recurse for the remaining list
    return reverseRecursiveUtil(next, current);
}

void reverseRecursive(struct Node** head) {
    *head = reverseRecursiveUtil(*head, NULL);
    printf("Linked list reversed recursively\n");
}

// Main function to test the linked list reversal
int main() {
    struct Node* head = NULL;

    // Create a linked list: 10 -> 20 -> 30 -> 40 -> 50
    insertAtEnd(&head, 10);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 20);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 30);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 40);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 50);

    printf("Original ");
    displayList(head);

    // Reverse the linked list iteratively
    reverseIterative(&head);
    displayList(head);

    // Recreate the linked list for recursive reversal
    head = NULL;
    insertAtEnd(&head, 10);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 20);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 30);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 40);
    insertAtEnd(&head, 50);

    printf("\nOriginal ");
    displayList(head);

    // Reverse the linked list recursively
    reverseRecursive(&head);
    displayList(head);

    return 0;
}

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