<LeetCode OJ> 160. Intersection of Two Linked Lists

Total Accepted: 72363  Total Submissions: 239177  Difficulty: 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.

分析:

双指针法,指针pa、pb分别指向链表A和B的首节点。
遍历链表A,记录其长度lengthA,遍历链表B,记录其长度lengthB。
因为两个链表的长度可能不相同,比如题目所给的case,lengthA=5,lengthB=6,则作差得到lengthB-lengthA=1,将指针pb从链表B的首节点开始走1步,即指向了第二个节点,pa指向链表A首节点,然后它们同时走,每次都走一步,当它们相等时,就是交集的节点。
时间复杂度O(lengthA+lengthB),空间复杂度O(1)。双指针法的代码如下:
/**
 * Definition for singly-linked list.
 * struct ListNode {
 *     int val;
 *     ListNode *next;
 *     ListNode(int x) : val(x), next(NULL) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    ListNode *getIntersectionNode(ListNode *headA, ListNode *headB) {
        if(headA==NULL||headB==NULL)
            return NULL;
        int lenA=0,lenB=0;
        ListNode *tmpA=headA,*tmpB=headB;
        ListNode *endA=headA,*endB=headB;
        while(tmpA!=NULL){lenA++;endA=tmpA;tmpA=tmpA->next;}//计算链表a的长度 
        while(tmpB!=NULL){lenB++;endB=tmpB;tmpB=tmpB->next;}//计算链表b的长度 
        if(endA!=endB)
            return NULL;
        //平移较长的链表相应长度差
        if(lenA<=lenB){  
           int n=lenB-lenA;  
           tmpA=headA;tmpB=headB;  
           while(n) {
               tmpB=tmpB->next;
               n--;
           }  
       }else{  
           int n=lenA-lenB;  
           tmpA=headA;tmpB=headB;  
           while(n) {
               tmpA=tmpA->next;
               n--;
           }  
       }  
       //寻找相同的节点指针  
       while(tmpA!=tmpB){  
           tmpA=tmpA->next;  
           tmpB=tmpB->next;  
       }  
       return tmpA;
    }
};



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原文地址:http://blog.csdn.net/ebowtang/article/details/51292290

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本博客LeetCode题解索引:http://blog.csdn.net/ebowtang/article/details/50668895

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