/*A node can be added in three ways 1) At the front of the linked list 2) After a given node. 3) At the end of the linked list.*/ // all insertion methods on Linked List #include using namespace std; // A linked list node class Node { public: int data; Node *next; }; /* Given a reference (pointer to pointer) to the head of a list and an int, inserts a new node on the front of the list. */ void push(Node** head_ref, int new_data) { /* 1. allocate node */ Node* new_node = new Node(); /* 2. put in the data */ new_node->data = new_data; /* 3. Make next of new node as head */ new_node->next = (*head_ref); /* 4. move the head to point to the new node */ (*head_ref) = new_node; } /* Given a node prev_node, insert a new node after the given prev_node */ void insertAfter(Node* prev_node, int new_data) { /*1. check if the given prev_node is NULL */ if (prev_node == NULL) { cout<<"the given previous node cannot be NULL"; return; } /* 2. allocate new node */ Node* new_node = new Node(); /* 3. put in the data */ new_node->data = new_data; /* 4. Make next of new node as next of prev_node */ new_node->next = prev_node->next; /* 5. move the next of prev_node as new_node */ prev_node->next = new_node; } /* Given a reference (pointer to pointer) to the head of a list and an int, appends a new node at the end */ void append(Node** head_ref, int new_data) { /* 1. allocate node */ Node* new_node = new Node(); Node *last = *head_ref; /* used in step 5*/ /* 2. put in the data */ new_node->data = new_data; /* 3. This new node is going to be the last node, so make next of it as NULL*/ new_node->next = NULL; /* 4. If the Linked List is empty, then make the new node as head */ if (*head_ref == NULL) { *head_ref = new_node; return; } /* 5. Else traverse till the last node */ while (last->next != NULL) last = last->next; /* 6. Change the next of last node */ last->next = new_node; return; } // This function prints contents of // linked list starting from head void printList(Node *node) { while (node != NULL) { cout<<" "<data; node = node->next; } } /* Driver code*/ int main() { /* Start with the empty list */ Node* head = NULL; // Insert 6. So linked list becomes 6->NULL append(&head, 6); // Insert 7 at the beginning. // So linked list becomes 7->6->NULL push(&head, 7); // Insert 1 at the beginning. // So linked list becomes 1->7->6->NULL push(&head, 1); // Insert 4 at the end. So // linked list becomes 1->7->6->4->NULL append(&head, 4); // Insert 8, after 7. So linked // list becomes 1->7->8->6->4->NULL insertAfter(head->next, 8); cout<<"Created Linked list is: "; printList(head); return 0; }