本题题目要求如下:
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.
本题我开始也想复杂了,写了一大堆链表操作。。但是,经过一段时间的挣扎后,我认为easy的题目不该是这种难度,然后,换了一个角度思考,果然很简单,就拿上面的代码举例子把,我们找到c1的最大障碍就是A和B到c1的长度不一样。。。于是我就想办法让他们一样,最开始我的想法是倒着数:c3,c2,c1。但是感觉不是很好写,于是就换了思路:
想办法让B从b2开始,A从a1开始,检查第一个相同的节点:
具体操作是:得到A和B的长度,比如这里A是5,B是6,则此时不计算B的第一个节点b1,直接从b2开始数
过程:
a1 != b2
a2 != b3
c1 == c1
成功!!
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) {
int len_A = 0;
ListNode* tmp = headA;
while (tmp != NULL) {
tmp = tmp->next;
++len_A;
}
int len_B = 0;
tmp = headB;
while (tmp != NULL) {
tmp = tmp->next;
++len_B;
}
int diff = abs(len_A - len_B);
if (len_A > len_B) {
while (diff-- > 0)
headA = headA->next;
}
else if (len_A < len_B) {
while (diff-- > 0)
headB = headB->next;
}
while (headA != NULL) {
if (headA == headB)
return headA;
headA = headA->next;
headB = headB->next;
}
return NULL;
}
};