Java Program to Sort the Elements of the Circular Linked List

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In a circular linked list, every node points to its next node in the sequence but the last node points to the first node in the list. Here, Create a circular linked list and sort the circular linked list in ascending order.

Circular linked list before sorting:

CIRCULAR LINKED LIST

Circular linked list after sorting:

SORTED CIRCULAR LINKED LIST

Approach:

Take two pointers: Current pointing to head of the node and Temp pointing to next node of Current.
Now for each iteration compare value of Current pointer to the value of Temp pointer.
Here two cases arise
Case 1: If the value of a current pointer is greater than that of Temp pointer
Swap values of a current pointer and temp pointer.
Move the temp pointer to next node
Case 2: If the value of a current pointer is less than or equal to that of Temp pointer
Move the temp pointer to next node
Now keep doing this until temp.next !=head of the list.
After completing step 3 move the Current to next node and repeat the steps 1,2,3 .
Each iteration results in fixing of the shortest element of the list to it’s correct position.
Repeat the above steps until Current. Next != head of list .

Let’s see how this work for the first node of the given circular linked list

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

Java

// Java Program to Sort the Elements
// of the Circular Linked List
 
import java.io.*;
 
public class GFG {
    // Stores Information about Node of List
    public class Node {
        int data;
        Node next;
        public Node(int data) { this.data = data; }
    }
 
    // Declaring Head of the Node
    public Node head_of_node = null;
 
    // A last pointer to help append values to our list
    public Node last = null;
 
    // Add method adds values to the end of the list
    public void add(int data)
    {
        Node newNode = new Node(data);
        if (head_of_node == null) {
            head_of_node = newNode;
            last = newNode;
            newNode.next = head_of_node;
        }
        else {
            last.next = newNode;
            last = newNode;
            last.next = head_of_node;
        }
    }
    // Sort_List method sorts the circular
    // linked list Using the algorithm
    public void Sort_List()
    {
 
        // current pointer pointing to the head of the list
        Node current = head_of_node;
 
        // a temp pointer
        Node temp = null;
 
        // variable value helps in swap of the values
        int value;
 
        // this is the Algorithm discussed above
        if (head_of_node == null) {
            System.out.println("Your list is empty");
        }
        else {
            while (current.next != head_of_node) {
                temp = current.next;
                while (temp != head_of_node) {
                    if (current.data > temp.data) {
                        value = current.data;
                        current.data = temp.data;
                        temp.data = value;
                    }
                    temp = temp.next;
                }
                current = current.next;
            }
        }
    }
    // Print_list method iterates through the list and
    // prints the values stored in the list
    public void Print_List()
    {
        Node current = head_of_node;
        if (head_of_node == null) {
            System.out.println("Your list is empty");
        }
        else {
            do {
                System.out.print(" " + current.data);
                current = current.next;
            } while (current != head_of_node);
            System.out.println();
        }
    }
 
    // Driver code
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
 
        GFG circular_list = new GFG();
        circular_list.add(10);
        circular_list.add(6);
        circular_list.add(3);
        circular_list.add(8);
        circular_list.add(4);
 
        System.out.print("Original List -->     ");
        circular_list.Print_List();
        circular_list.Sort_List();
        System.out.print("List after Sorting--> ");
        circular_list.Print_List();
    }
}

Output

Original List -->      10 6 3 8 4
List after Sorting-->  3 4 6 8 10

Time Complexity: O(N²)

Auxiliary Space: O(1) as it is using constant space

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