C program to find the largest element in the singly linked list

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2022-05-08

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Given a singly linked list, we have to find the largest element.

Program:

The source code to find the largest element in a singly linked list is given below. The given program is compiled and executed using GCC compile on UBUNTU 18.04 OS successfully.

// C program to find the largest element
// in singly linked list

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

//Self-referential structure to create the node.
typedef struct tmp {
    int item;
    struct tmp* next;
} Node;

//structure for creating the linked list.
typedef struct
    {
    Node* head;
    Node* tail;

} List;

//Initialize List
void initList(List* lp)
{
    lp->head = NULL;
    lp->tail = NULL;
}

//Create node and return the reference of it.
Node* createNode(int item)
{
    Node* nNode;

    nNode = (Node*)malloc(sizeof(Node));

    nNode->item = item;
    nNode->next = NULL;

    return nNode;
}

//Add a new item at the end of the list.
void addAtTail(List* lp, int item)
{
    Node* node;
    node = createNode(item);

    //if list is empty.
    if (lp->head == NULL) {
        lp->head = node;
        lp->tail = node;
    }
    else {
        lp->tail->next = node;
        lp->tail = lp->tail->next;
    }
}

//Add a new item at the beginning of the list.
void addAtHead(List* lp, int item)
{
    Node* node;
    node = createNode(item);

    //if list is empty.
    if (lp->head == NULL) {
        lp->head = node;
        lp->tail = node;
    }
    else {
        node->next = lp->head;
        lp->head = node;
    }
}

//To print the list from start to end of the list.
void printList(List* lp)
{
    Node* node;

    if (lp->head == NULL) {
        printf("\nEmpty List");
        return;
    }

    node = lp->head;

    while (node != NULL) {
        printf("| %05d |", node->item);
        node = node->next;

        if (node != NULL)
            printf("--->");
    }
    printf("\n\n");
}

int findLarge(List* lp)
{
    Node* temp;
    int large = 0;

    temp = lp->head;

    while (temp != NULL) {
        if (large < temp->item)
            large = temp->item;

        temp = temp->next;
    }

    return large;
}

//Main function to execute program.
int main()
{
    List* lp;
    int large = 0;

    lp = (List*)malloc(sizeof(List));

    initList(lp);

    addAtHead(lp, 100);
    addAtHead(lp, 200);
    addAtHead(lp, 300);
    addAtHead(lp, 200);
    addAtHead(lp, 100);

    printf("List:\n");
    printList(lp);

    large = findLarge(lp);

    printf("Largest element in Linked list is: %d\n", large);

    return 0;
}

Output:

List:
| 00100 |--->| 00200 |--->| 00300 |--->| 00200 |--->| 00100 |

Largest element in Linked list is: 300

Explanation:

Here, we created a self-referential structure to implement a linked list, a function to add a node at the start and end of the list, a function isPalindrome() to check linked list is palindrome or not. The isPalindrome() function returns 1 if the list is palindrome otherwise it will return 0.

In the main() function, we created a linked list. Then we checked the given list is palindrome or not using the isPalindrome() function and printed the appropriate message.

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