Deletion of target node in doubly linked list in C++

How to delete any target node in doubly linked list in C++?

Doubly Linked List is the successor of the singly linked list linear data structure. Although Doubly Linked List is more useful than singly linked list in various manner, but it has its own drawbacks, one of which is that it requires a lot of data in comparison with singly linked list. In this article let’s see one of the operation that you can perform on Doubly Linked List, i.e; a C++ Program for Deletion of nth node in Doubly Linked List

Deletion from nth in doubly linked list

Steps to delete a target node in doubly linked list in C++

Following steps are involved in deletion any target node from a doubly linked list  :-

  • Traverse till the target node.
  • Assign previous node’s next pointer to the next node of the target node.
  • For the next node of the target node, its previous pointer is assigned to the targets node’s previous node’s address.
  • Exit

Defining doubly linked list in C++

struct Node 
{
  int Data;
  Struct Node* next;
  Struct Node* prev;
};
Deletion of target node in doubly linked it in C++

Algorithm to delete any target node in doubly linked list in C++

  •  IF HEAD = NULL
  •  EXIT
  • ELSE SET TEMP = HEAD
  • Repeat Next Step while TEMP ->NODE!= POS
  • SET TEMP = TEMP -> NEXT
  • END Of LOOP
  • SET PTR = TEMP -> NEXT
  •  SET TEMP -> NEXT = PTR -> NEXT
  • SET PTR -> NEXT -> PREV = TEMP
  • FREE PTR
  • EXIT

Program to delete any target node in doubly linked list in C++

Run
#include<iostream> 
using namespace std;

struct node {
    int num;
    struct node * preptr;
    struct node * nextptr;
}*start_node, *end_node;
 

void Listcreation(int n);
void DeleteFirstnode();
void DeleteLastnode();
void DeleteAnyNode(int pos);
void display(int a);

int main()
{
    int n,num1,a,insPlc;
    start_node = NULL;
   end_node= NULL;
         
    cout<<" Enter the number of nodes : ";
    cin>>n;
    Listcreation(n); 
    a=1;
    display(a);
    cout<<" Enter the position  to delete a node : ";
    cin>>insPlc;

    
if(insPlc<1 || insPlc>n)
    {
     cout<<"\n Invalid position. Try again.\n ";
    }
          if(insPlc>=1 && insPlc<=n) { DeleteAnyNode(insPlc); a=2; display(a); } return 0; } void Listcreation(int n) { int i, num; struct node *fnNode; if(n >= 1)
    {
        start_node = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
 
        if(start_node != NULL)
        {
            cout<<" Enter data for node 1: "; // storing data in the first node
            cin>>num;
 
            start_node->num = num;
            start_node->preptr = NULL;
            start_node->nextptr = NULL;
            end_node= start_node;
            for(i=2; i<=n; i++)
            {
                fnNode = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
                if(fnNode != NULL)
                {
                    cout<<" Enter data for node "<>num;
                    fnNode->num = num;
                    fnNode->preptr = end_node;      // linking new nodes
                    fnNode->nextptr = NULL;        // setting the address of last node to NULL
                    end_node->nextptr = fnNode;   // previous node is linking with the new node
                    end_node= fnNode;            // assign new node as last node
                }
                else
                {
                    cout<<" Memory can not be allocated.";
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        else
        {
            cout<<" Memory can not be allocated.";
        }
    }
}

void DeleteAnyNode(int pos)
{
    struct node* curNode;
    int i;

    curNode = start_node;
    for (i = 1; curNode != NULL && i < pos; i++)
    {
        curNode = curNode->nextptr;
    }

    if (pos == 1)
    {
        DeleteFirstnode();
    }
    else if (curNode == end_node)
    {
        DeleteLastnode();
    }
    else if (curNode != NULL)
    {
        curNode->preptr->nextptr = curNode->nextptr;
        curNode->nextptr->preptr = curNode->preptr;

        free(curNode); // Deleting the nth node
    }
    else
    {
        cout << "The given position is invalid!\n";
    }
}
 

void DeleteFirstnode()//deleting the first node
{
    struct node * NodeToDel;
    if(start_node == NULL)//checking if the first node is the last node or not
    {
        cout<<" Delete is not possible. No data in the list.\n";
    }
    else   
    {
        NodeToDel = start_node;
        start_node = start_node->nextptr;   
        start_node->preptr = NULL;     
        free(NodeToDel);           
    }
}

void DeleteLastnode()//deleting the last node
{
    struct node * NodeToDel;
 
    if(end_node== NULL)//checking whether the list has any nodes or not
    {
        cout<<" Delete is not possible. No data in the list.\n";
    }
    else
    {
        NodeToDel = end_node;
        end_node= end_node->preptr;    
        end_node->nextptr = NULL;   
        free(NodeToDel);        
    }
}
void display(int m)
{
    struct node * tmp;
    int n = 1;
    if(start_node == NULL)
    {
        cout<<" No data found in the List yet.";
    }
    else
    {
        tmp = start_node;
        if (m==1)
        {
        cout<<"\n Data entered in the list are :\n";
        }
        else
        {
         cout<<"\n After deletion the new list are :\n";   
        }
        while(tmp != NULL)
        {
            cout<<" node "<< n<<": "<< tmp->num<nextptr; // current pointer moves to the next node
        }
    }
}
 Output:
 Enter the number of nodes : 5
 Enter data for node 1: 11
 Enter data for node 2: 22
 Enter data for node 3: 33
 Enter data for node 4: 44
 Enter data for node 5: 55

 Data entered in the list are :
 node 1: 11
 node 2: 22
 node 3: 33
 node 4: 44
 node 5: 55
 Enter the position  to delete a node : 3

 After deletion the new list are :
 node 1: 11
 node 2: 22
 node 3: 44
 node 4: 55

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