380. Intersection of Two Linked Lists【medium】

Write a program to find the node at which the intersection of two singly linked lists begins.

Notice

• 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.

 

Example

The following two linked lists:

A:          a1 → a2
                   ↘
                     c1 → c2 → c3
                   ↗            
B:     b1 → b2 → b3

begin to intersect at node c1.

Challenge

Your code should preferably run in O(n) time and use only O(1) memory.

解法一：

class Solution {
public:
    /**
     * @param headA: the first list
     * @param headB: the second list
     * @return: a ListNode
     */
    ListNode *getIntersectionNode(ListNode *headA, ListNode *headB) {
        // write your code here
        if(headA == NULL || headB == NULL)
            return NULL;
        ListNode* iter1 = headA;
        ListNode* iter2 = headB;
        int len1 = 1;
        while(iter1->next != NULL)
        {
            iter1 = iter1->next;
            len1 ++;
        }
        int len2 = 1;
        while(iter2->next != NULL)
        {
            iter2 = iter2->next;
            len2 ++;
        }
        if(iter1 != iter2)
            return NULL;
        if(len1 > len2)
        {
            for(int i = 0; i < len1-len2; i ++)
                headA = headA->next;
        }
        else if(len2 > len1)
        {
            for(int i = 0; i < len2-len1; i ++)
                headB = headB->next;
        }
        while(headA != headB)
        {
            headA = headA->next;
            headB = headB->next;
        }
        return headA;
    }
};