It is quite a basic problem. However I spent half an hour solving it and made two mistakes. Guess it's because I haven't written some fundamental data structures like linked list for a while and kind of get lost. I should practice these questions more.
public class Solution {
public ListNode insertionSortList(ListNode head) {
if (head == null || head.next == null)
return head;
ListNode cNode = head.next;
ListNode prevcNode = head;
while (cNode != null) {
if (cNode.val <= head.val) {
prevcNode.next = cNode.next;
cNode.next = head;
head = cNode;
cNode = prevcNode.next;
}
else {
ListNode tNode = head;
while( tNode.next != cNode &&tNode.next.val < cNode.val)
{
tNode = tNode.next;
}
if(tNode.next == cNode)
{
prevcNode = cNode;
cNode = cNode.next;
}
else
{
prevcNode.next = cNode.next;
cNode.next = tNode.next;
tNode.next = cNode;
cNode = prevcNode.next;
}
}
}
return head;
}
}