Given a link list with right pointers and each element of the list has a down link contains another link list with down pointers as:
5 -> 7 -> 9 -> 18 | | | | 10 6 14 20 | | | | 11 8 19 22 | | | 12 13 24 | 15
// Sort a list with down pointer.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct node
{
int num;
struct node *right;
struct node *down;
} Node;
Node *getNextNode(Node **ppNodes, int size)
{
Node *pRetNode = NULL;
Node *pCurNode = NULL;
int curIdx = 0;
for (int i=0; i<size; i++)
{
if (ppNodes[i] != NULL)
{
pCurNode = ppNodes[i];
curIdx = i;
break;
}
}
if (pCurNode == NULL)
return NULL;
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
{
if (ppNodes[i] != NULL)
{
if (ppNodes[i]->num < pCurNode->num)
{
pCurNode = ppNodes[i];
curIdx = i;
}
}
}
pRetNode = pCurNode;
ppNodes[curIdx] = pCurNode->down;
return pRetNode;
}
Node* sortList(Node *rootNode)
{
if (rootNode == NULL)
return NULL;
int listSize = 0;
Node *pCurNode = rootNode;
while (pCurNode)
{
listSize++;
pCurNode = pCurNode->right;
}
Node **ppNodes = NULL;
ppNodes = (Node **)malloc(listSize*sizeof(Node *));
//ppNodes = new (Node *)[listSize];
pCurNode = rootNode;
for (int i=0; i<listSize; i++)
{
ppNodes[i] = pCurNode;
pCurNode = pCurNode->right;
}
//Node *pNewRoot = pCurNode = rootNode;
Node *pNewRoot = NULL;
Node *pNextNode = getNextNode(ppNodes, listSize);
while (pNextNode != 0)
{
Node *pNewNext = new Node;
pNewNext->num = pNextNode->num;
if (pNewRoot == NULL)
{
pNewRoot = pCurNode = pNewNext;
pNextNode = getNextNode(ppNodes, listSize);
continue;
}
pCurNode->right = pNewNext;
pCurNode = pCurNode->right;
pNextNode = getNextNode(ppNodes, listSize);
}
pCurNode->right = NULL;
free(ppNodes);
return pNewRoot;
}
void printList(Node *pRootNode)
{
Node *pCurNode = pRootNode;
Node *pDeleteNode;
while (pCurNode)
{
printf("%d->", pCurNode->num);
pDeleteNode = pCurNode;
pCurNode = pCurNode->right;
delete pDeleteNode;
}
printf("NULL\r\n");
}
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
Node N1, N2, N3, N4;
Node N5, N6, N7, N8, N9, N10, N11, N12, N13, N14, N15, N16;
N1.num = 5;
N2.num = 6;
N3.num = 9;
N4.num = 18;
N5.num = 10;
N6.num = 7;
N7.num = 14;
N8.num = 20;
N9.num = 11;
N10.num = 8;
N11.num = 19;
N12.num = 22;
N13.num = 12;
N14.num = 13;
N15.num = 24;
N16.num = 15;
N1.right = &N2;
N2.right = &N3;
N3.right = &N4;
N4.right = NULL;
N1.down = &N5;
N5.down = &N9;
N9.down = &N13;
N13.down = &N16;
N16.down = NULL;
N2.down = &N6;
N6.down = &N10;
N10.down = &N14;
N14.down = NULL;
N3.down = &N7;
N7.down = &N11;
N11.down = NULL;
N4.down = &N8;
N8.down = &N12;
N12.down = &N15;
N15.down = NULL;
Node *newList = sortList(&N1);
printList(newList);
return 0;
}