Leetcode: Merge Two Sorted Lists

Merge two sorted linked lists and return it as a new list. The new list should be made by splicing together the nodes of the first two lists.

Example:

Input: 1->2->4, 1->3->4
Output: 1->1->2->3->4->4

方法二（推荐方法1）： 

新的Linkedlist不以任何现有List为依托，维护一个dummmy node和当前节点ListNode cur，把两个list的元素往里面插入作为cur.next，每次不new一个新的ListNode, 而是用已有的。相较于法一最后需要讨论两个list各自没有走完的情况

/**
 * Definition for singly-linked list.
 * public class ListNode {
 *     int val;
 *     ListNode next;
 *     ListNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    public ListNode mergeTwoLists(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
        ListNode dummy = new ListNode(-1);
        ListNode cur = dummy;
        while (l1 != null && l2 != null) {
            if (l1.val <= l2.val) {
                cur.next = l1;
                l1 = l1.next;
            }
            else {
                cur.next = l2;
                l2 = l2.next;
            }
            cur = cur.next;
        }
        cur.next = l1 != null ? l1 : l2;
        return dummy.next;
    }
}

 

方法三：（推荐方法2）Recursion

public ListNode mergeTwoLists(ListNode l1, ListNode l2){
        if(l1 == null) return l2;
        if(l2 == null) return l1;
        if(l1.val < l2.val){
            l1.next = mergeTwoLists(l1.next, l2);
            return l1;
        } else{
            l2.next = mergeTwoLists(l1, l2.next);
            return l2;
        }
}