题目描述:
将两个升序链表合并为一个新的 升序 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 1:
输入:l1 = [1,2,4], l2 = [1,3,4]
输出:[1,1,2,3,4,4]
示例 2:
输入:l1 = [], l2 = []
输出:[]
示例 3:
输入:l1 = [], l2 = [0]
输出:[0]
迭代
定义一个虚拟结点,作为新链表的头
每次比较两个链表的头结点,将较小的连接到虚拟结点上
直至有一个链表为空,如果另一个链表有剩余,直接连接上去即可
/**
* Definition for singly-linked list.
* public class ListNode {
* int val;
* ListNode next;
* ListNode() {}
* ListNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
* ListNode(int val, ListNode next) { this.val = val; this.next = next; }
* }
*/
class Solution {
public ListNode mergeTwoLists(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
ListNode prehead = new ListNode();
ListNode prev = prehead;
while( l1 != null && l2 != null){
if(l1.val <= l2.val){
prev.next = l1;
l1 = l1.next;
}else{
prev.next = l2;
l2 = l2.next;
}
prev = prev.next;
}
prev.next = l1 == null ? l2 : l1;
return prehead.next;
}
}
递归
每次比较头结点的大小,将较小的结点留下,缩小问题成 连接去除较小结点之后的两个链表。
/**
* Definition for singly-linked list.
* public class ListNode {
* int val;
* ListNode next;
* ListNode() {}
* ListNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
* ListNode(int val, ListNode next) { this.val = val; this.next = next; }
* }
*/
class Solution {
public ListNode mergeTwoLists(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
if(l1 == null ){
return l2;
}else if(l2 == null){
return l1;
}else if(l1.val <= l2.val){
l1.next = mergeTwoLists(l1.next,l2);
return l1;
}else {
l2.next = mergeTwoLists(l1,l2.next);
return l2;
}
}
}