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234. Palindrome Linked List

Easy

Given the head of a singly linked list, return true if it is a palindrome.

Example 1:

Input: head = [1,2,2,1]

Output: true

Example 2:

Input: head = [1,2]

Output: false

Constraints:

Follow up: Could you do it in O(n) time and O(1) space?

Solution

using LeetCodeNet.Com_github_leetcode;

/**
 * Definition for singly-linked list.
 * public class ListNode {
 *     public int val;
 *     public ListNode next;
 *     public ListNode(int val=0, ListNode next=null) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.next = next;
 *     }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    public bool IsPalindrome(ListNode head) {
        int len = 0;
        ListNode right = head;
        // Calculate the length
        while (right != null) {
            right = right.next;
            len++;
        }
        // Reverse the right half of the list
        len = len / 2;
        right = head;
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            right = right.next;
        }
        ListNode prev = null;
        while (right != null) {
            ListNode next = right.next;
            right.next = prev;
            prev = right;
            right = next;
        }
        // Compare left half and right half
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            if (prev != null && head.val == prev.val) {
                head = head.next;
                prev = prev.next;
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
}