Reverse Nodes in k-Group
Given the head of a linked list, reverse the nodes of the list k at a time, and return the modified list.
k is a positive integer and is less than or equal to the length of the linked list. If the number of nodes is not a multiple of k then left-out nodes, in the end, should remain as it is.
You may not alter the values in the list's nodes, only nodes themselves may be changed.
public ListNode reverseKGroup(ListNode head, int k) {
ListNode begin;
if (head==null || head.next ==null || k==1)
return head;
ListNode dummyhead = new ListNode(-1);
dummyhead.next = head;
begin = dummyhead;
int i=0;
while (head != null){
i++;
if (i%k == 0){
begin = reverse(begin, head.next);
head = begin.next;
} else {
head = head.next;
}
}
return dummyhead.next;
}
public ListNode reverse(ListNode begin, ListNode end){
ListNode curr = begin.next;
ListNode next, first;
ListNode prev = begin;
first = curr;
while (curr!=end){
next = curr.next;
curr.next = prev;
prev = curr;
curr = next;
}
begin.next = prev;
first.next = curr;
return first;
}There are also recursive solutions, this video uses c++ but the approach is the same as the code below.
public ListNode reverseKGroup(ListNode head, int k) {
ListNode curr = head;
int count = 0;
while (curr != null && count != k) { // find the k+1 node
curr = curr.next;
count++;
}
if (count == k) { // if k+1 node is found
curr = reverseKGroup(curr, k); // reverse list with k+1 node as head
// head - head-pointer to direct part,
// curr - head-pointer to reversed part;
while (count-- > 0) { // reverse current k-group:
ListNode tmp = head.next; // tmp - next head in direct part
head.next = curr; // preappending "direct" head to the reversed list
curr = head; // move head of reversed part to a new node
head = tmp; // move "direct" head to the next node in direct part
}
head = curr;
}
return head;
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