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Merge two linked list
/* Program to merge two linked list, restricting commomn elements to occur only once */
#include <stdio.h>
                      #include <conio.h>
                      #include <alloc.h>
/* structure containing a data part and link part */
                      struct node
                      {
                      int data ;
                      struct node *link ;
                      } ;
void add ( struct node **, int ) ;
                      void display ( struct node * ) ;
                      int count ( struct node * ) ;
                      void merge ( struct node *, struct node *, struct node ** ) ;
void main( )
                      {
                      struct node *first, *second, *third ;
                      first = second = third = NULL ;  /* empty linked lists */
 add ( &first, 9 ) ;
                      add ( &first, 12 ) ;
                      add ( &first, 14 ) ;
                      add ( &first, 17 ) ;
                      add ( &first, 35 ) ;
                      add ( &first, 61 ) ;
                      add ( &first, 79 ) ;
 clrscr( ) ;
                      printf ( "First linked list : " ) ;
                      display ( first ) ;
                      printf ( "\nNo. of elements in Linked List : %d" , count ( first ) ) ;
 add ( &second, 12 ) ;
                      add ( &second, 17 ) ;
                      add ( &second, 24 ) ;
                      add ( &second, 36 ) ;
                      add ( &second, 59 ) ;
                      add ( &second, 64 ) ;
                      add ( &second, 87 ) ;
 printf ( "\n\nSecond linked list : " ) ;
                      display ( second ) ;
                      printf ( "\nNo. of elements in Linked List : %d" , count ( second ) ) ;
merge ( first, second, &third ) ;
 printf ( "\n\nThe merged list : " ) ;
                      display ( third ) ;
                      printf ( "\nNo. of elements in Linked List : %d", count ( third ) ) ;
                      }
/* adds node to an ascending order linked list */
                      void add ( struct node **q, int num )
                      {
                      struct node *r, *temp = *q ;
 r = malloc ( sizeof ( struct node ) ) ;
                      r -> data = num ;
 /* if list is empty or if new node is to be inserted before the first node */
                      if ( *q == NULL || ( *q ) -> data > num )
                      {
                      *q = r ;
                      ( *q ) -> link = temp ;
                      }
                      else
                      {
                      /* traverse the entire linked list to search the position to insert the new node */
                      while ( temp != NULL )
                      {
                      if ( temp -> data < num && ( temp -> link -> data > num ||
                      temp -> link == NULL ))
                      {
                      r -> link = temp -> link ;
                      temp -> link = r ;
                      return ;
                      }
                      temp = temp -> link ;  /*go to next node */
                      }
 r -> link = NULL ;
                      temp -> link = r ;
                      }
                      }
/* displays the contents of the linked list */
                      void display ( struct node *q )
                      {
                      printf ( "\n" ) ;
 /* traverse the entire linked list */
                      while ( q != NULL )
                      {
                      printf ( "%d ", q -> data ) ;
                      q = q -> link ;
                      }
                      }
/* counts the number of nodes present in the linked list */
                      int count ( struct node * q )
                      {
                      int c = 0 ;
 /* traverse the entire linked list */
                      while ( q != NULL )
                      {
                      q = q -> link ;
                      c++ ;
                      }
 return c ;
                      }
/* merges the two linked lists, restricting the common elements to occur only once in the final list */
                      void merge ( struct node *p, struct node *q, struct node **s )
                      {
                      struct node *z ;
z = NULL ;
 /* if both lists are empty */
                      if ( p == NULL && q == NULL )
                      return ;
 /* traverse both linked lists till the end. If end of any one list is reached loop is terminated */
                      while ( p != NULL && q != NULL )
                      {
                      /* if node being added in the first node */
                      if ( *s == NULL )
                      {
                      *s = malloc ( sizeof ( struct node ) ) ;
                      z = *s ;
                      }
                      else
                      {
                      z -> link = malloc ( sizeof ( struct node ) ) ;
                      z = z -> link ;
                      }
 if ( p -> data < q -> data )
                      {
                      z -> data = p -> data ;
                      p = p -> link ;
                      }
                      else
                      {
                      if ( q -> data < p -> data )
                      {
                      z -> data = q -> data ;
                      q = q -> link ;
                      }
                      else
                      {
                      if ( p -> data == q -> data )
                      {
                      z -> data = q -> data ;
                      p = p -> link ;
                      q = q -> link ;
                      }
                      }
                      }
                      }
 /* if end of first list has not been reached */
                      while ( p != NULL )
                      {
                      z -> link = malloc ( sizeof ( struct node ) ) ;
                      z = z -> link ;
                      z -> data = p -> data ;
                      p = p -> link ;
                      }
 /* if end of second list has been reached */
                      while ( q != NULL )
                      {
                      z -> link = malloc ( sizeof ( struct node ) ) ;
                      z = z -> link ;
                      z -> data = q -> data ;
                      q = q -> link ;
                      }
                      z -> link = NULL ;
                      }
                    
