C# Program To Reverse Linked List

Write code to reverse a linked list, if you able to do it using loops, try to solve with recursion?

Reverse Linked List in C#

Here, we will learn how to reverse a linked list in C#, we will see 2 ways of doing it.

Create a new linked list and insert all elements from 1st linked list in reverse order
Swapping starts from the first node’s object and the first node’s object is swapped with the last node’s object

Assuming we have N nodes in the link list:

Swap: 1st node’s object with Nth node’s object
Swap: 2nd node’s object with (N-1)th node’s object
Swap: 3rd node’s object with (N-2)th node’s object

Process 1:

public void ReverseLinkedList (LinkedList linkedList)
{
// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Create a new linked list and add all items of given
// linked list to the copy linked list in reverse order
// ------------------------------------------------------------

LinkedList copyList = new LinkedList();

// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Start from the latest node
// ------------------------------------------------------------

LinkedListNode start = linkedList.Tail;

// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Traverse until the first node is found
// ------------------------------------------------------------

while (start != null)
{
// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Add item to the new link list
// ------------------------------------------------------------

copyList.Add (start.Item);

start = start.Previous;
}

linkedList = copyList;
}

Process 2:

public void ReverseLinkedList (LinkedList linkedList)
{
// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Create variables used in the swapping algorithm
// ------------------------------------------------------------

LinkedListNode firstNode; // This node will be the first node in the swapping
LinkedListNode secondNode; // This node will be the second node in the swapping
int numberOfRun; // This variable will be used to determine the number of swapping runs

// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Find the tail of the linked list
// ------------------------------------------------------------

// Assume that our linked list doesn’t have a property to find the tail of it.
// In this case, to find the tail, we need to traverse through each node.
// This variable is used to find the tail of the linked list
LinkedListNode tail = linkedList.Head; // Start from first link list node
 // and go all the way to the end
while (tail.Next != null)
tail = tail.Next;

// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Assign variables
// ------------------------------------------------------------

firstNode = linkedList.Head;
secondNode = tail;
numberOfRun = linkedList.Length / 2;
// Division will always be integer since the numberOfRun variable is an integer

// ------------------------------------------------------------
// Swap node’s objects
// ------------------------------------------------------------

object tempObject; // This will be used in the swapping 2 objects
for (int i=0; i < numberOfRun; i++)
{
// Swap the objects by using a 3rd temporary variable
tempObject = firstNode.Item;
firstNode.Item = secondNode.Item;
secondNode.Item = tempObject;

// Hop to the next node from the beginning and previous node from the end
firstNode = firstNode.Next;
secondNode = secondNode.Previous;
}
}