2024-07-04 Daily Challenge

Today I have done leetcode's July LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.

July LeetCoding Challenge 4

Description

Merge Nodes in Between Zeros

You are given the head of a linked list, which contains a series of integers separated by 0's. The beginning and end of the linked list will have Node.val == 0.

For every two consecutive 0's, merge all the nodes lying in between them into a single node whose value is the sum of all the merged nodes. The modified list should not contain any 0's.

Return the head of the modified linked list.

 

Example 1:

Input: head = [0,3,1,0,4,5,2,0]
Output: [4,11]
Explanation: 
The above figure represents the given linked list. The modified list contains
- The sum of the nodes marked in green: 3 + 1 = 4.
- The sum of the nodes marked in red: 4 + 5 + 2 = 11.

Example 2:

Input: head = [0,1,0,3,0,2,2,0]
Output: [1,3,4]
Explanation: 
The above figure represents the given linked list. The modified list contains
- The sum of the nodes marked in green: 1 = 1.
- The sum of the nodes marked in red: 3 = 3.
- The sum of the nodes marked in yellow: 2 + 2 = 4.

 

Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in the list is in the range [3, 2 * 105].
  • 0 <= Node.val <= 1000
  • There are no two consecutive nodes with Node.val == 0.
  • The beginning and end of the linked list have Node.val == 0.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
  ListNode* mergeNodes(ListNode* head) {
    ListNode *newRoot = new ListNode();
    ListNode *cur = newRoot;
    while(head) {
      if(head->next && head->next->val) {
        cur->val += head->next->val;
      } else if(head->next && head->next->next)  {
        cur->next = new ListNode();
        cur = cur->next;
      }
      head = head->next;
    }
    return newRoot;
  }
};