Deletion in Doubly Linked List at The End

by Online Tutorials Library July 22, 2022

Deletion in doubly linked list at the end

Deletion of the last node in a doubly linked list needs traversing the list in order to reach the last node of the list and then make pointer adjustments at that position.

In order to delete the last node of the list, we need to follow the following steps.

If the list is already empty then the condition head == NULL will become true and therefore the operation can not be carried on.
If there is only one node in the list then the condition head → next == NULL become true. In this case, we just need to assign the head of the list to NULL and free head in order to completely delete the list.
Otherwise, just traverse the list to reach the last node of the list. This will be done by using the following statements.

The ptr would point to the last node of the ist at the end of the for loop. Just make the next pointer of the previous node of ptr to NULL.

free the pointer as this the node which is to be deleted.

Step 1: IF HEAD = NULL

Write UNDERFLOW
Go to Step 7
[END OF IF]

Step 2: SET TEMP = HEAD
Step 3: REPEAT STEP 4 WHILE TEMP->NEXT != NULL
Step 4: SET TEMP = TEMP->NEXT

[END OF LOOP]

Step 5: SET TEMP ->PREV-> NEXT = NULL
Step 6: FREE TEMP
Step 7: EXIT

C Function

  #include<stdio.h>  #include<stdlib.h>  void create(int);  void last_delete();  struct node  {  int data;  struct node *next;  struct node *prev;  };  struct node *head;  void main ()  {  int choice,item;  do   {  printf(“1.Append Listn2.Delete node from endn3.Exitn4.Enter your choice?”);  scanf(“%d”,&choice);  switch(choice)  {  case 1:  printf(“nEnter the itemn”);  scanf(“%d”,&item);  create(item);  break;   case 2:  last_delete();  break;   case 3:  exit(0);  break;  default:  printf(“nPlease enter valid choicen”);  }    }while(choice != 3);  }  void create(int item)  {        struct node *ptr = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));     if(ptr == NULL)     {         printf(“nOVERFLOWn”);     }     else     {                 if(head==NULL)     {         ptr->next = NULL;         ptr->prev=NULL;         ptr->data=item;         head=ptr;     }     else      {         ptr->data=item;         ptr->prev=NULL;         ptr->next = head;         head->prev=ptr;         head=ptr;     }  printf(“nNode Insertedn”);  }       }  void last_delete()  {  struct node *ptr;      if(head == NULL)  {  printf(“n UNDERFLOWn”);  }  else if(head->next == NULL)  {  head = NULL;   free(head);  printf(“nNode Deletedn”);  }  else   {  ptr = head;   if(ptr->next != NULL)  {  ptr = ptr -> next;   }  ptr -> prev -> next = NULL;   free(ptr);  printf(“nNode Deletedn”);  }  }  

Output

1.Append List  2.Delete node from end  3.Exit  4.Enter your choice?1    Enter the item  12    Node Inserted  1.Append List  2.Delete node from end  3.Exit  4.Enter your choice?1    Enter the item  90    Node Inserted  1.Append List  2.Delete node from end  3.Exit  4.Enter your choice?2    Node Deleted

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