Consider the following program to create a doubly linked list containing n nodes.
public class CountList {
//Represent a node of the doubly linked list
class Node{
int data;
Node previous;
Node next;
public Node(int data) {
this.data = data;
}
}
//Represent the head and tail of the doubly linked list
Node head, tail = null;
//addNode() will add a node to the list
public void addNode(int data) {
//Create a new node
Node newNode = new Node(data);
//If list is empty
if(head == null) {
//Both head and tail will point to newNode
head = tail = newNode;
//head's previous will point to null
head.previous = null;
//tail's next will point to null, as it is the last node of the list
tail.next = null;
}
else {
//newNode will be added after tail such that tail's next will point to newNode
tail.next = newNode;
//newNode's previous will point to tail
newNode.previous = tail;
//newNode will become new tail
tail = newNode;
//As it is last node, tail's next will point to null
tail.next = null;
}
}
//countNodes() will count the nodes present in the list
public int countNodes() {
int counter = 0;
//Node current will point to head
Node current = head;
while(current != null) {
//Increment the counter by 1 for each node
counter++;
current = current.next;
}
return counter;
}
//display() will print out the elements of the list
public void display() {
//Node current will point to head
Node current = head;
if(head == null) {
System.out.println("List is empty");
return;
}
System.out.println("Nodes of doubly linked list: ");
while(current != null) {
//Prints each node by incrementing the pointer.
System.out.print(current.data + " ");
current = current.next;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
CountList dList = new CountList();
//Add nodes to the list
dList.addNode(1);
dList.addNode(2);
dList.addNode(3);
dList.addNode(4);
dList.addNode(5);
//Displays the nodes present in the list
dList.display();
//Counts the nodes present in the given list
System.out.println("\nCount of nodes present in the list: " + dList.countNodes());
}
}
