DLL Operation: Delete

  • Trace the basic operations of a (doubly) linked-list implementation.
  • Understand the basic operations of a (doubly) linked list well enough to implement them.

Suppose we want to delete the node pointed to by the reference variable target:

Exercise Complete the implementation of delete.

public void delete(Node<T> target) {
    // TODO Implement me!
}

Hint: Use the following visualization as guidance.

Solution 
public void delete(Node<T> target) {
  Node<T> prevNode = target.prev;
  Node<T> nextNode = target.next;

  prevNode.next = nextNode;
  nextNode.prev = prevNode;

  // no need for these!
  target.next = null;
  target.prev = null;
}

Caution: the implementation above fails to account for edge cases!