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Practical C Programming
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Practical C Programming

by B. M. Harwani
February 2020
Beginner to intermediate
616 pages
15h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sorting the singly linked list

We will use the bubble sort algorithm for sorting the linked list. In the bubble sort technique, the first value is compared with the second value, the second is compared with the third value, and so on. If we want to sort our list in ascending order, then we will need to keep the smaller values toward the top when comparing the values.

Therefore, while comparing the first and second values, if the first value is larger than the second value, then their places will be interchanged. If the first value is smaller than the second value, then no interchanging will happen, and the second and third values will be picked up for comparison.

There will be n-1 iterations of such comparisons, meaning if there are five ...

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