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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Third Edition
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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Third Edition

by Loiane Avancini
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
426 pages
10h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Inserting elements in order

We will overwrite the insert method with the code presented as follows:

insert(element, index = 0) { // {1}  if (this.isEmpty()) {    return super.insert(element, 0); // {2}  }  const pos = this.getIndexNextSortedElement(element); // {3}  return super.insert(element, pos); // {4}}getIndexNextSortedElement(element) {  let current = this.head;  let i = 0;  for (; i < this.size() && current; i++) {    const comp = this.compareFn(element, current.element); // {5}    if (comp === Compare.LESS_THAN) { // {6}      return i;    }    current = current.next;  }  return i; // {7}}

As we do not want to allow inserting elements at any index, we will start assigning a default value to the index parameter ({1}), so we can simply evoke list.insert(myElement) ...

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