C Program to Print Alternate Nodes of a Linked List using Recursion

This C program, using recursion, displays the alternate nodes in a linked list.A linked list is an ordered set of data elements, each containing a link to its successor.

Here is the source code of the C program to display a linked list in reverse. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

  1. /*
  2.  * C Program to Print the Alternate Nodes in a Linked List using Recursion
  3.  */
  4. #include <stdio.h>
  5. #include <stdlib.h>
  6.  
  7. struct node
  8. {
  9.     int a;
  10.     struct node *next;
  11. };
  12.  
  13. void generate(struct node **);
  14. void display(struct node *);
  15. void delete(struct node **);
  16.  
  17. int main()
  18. {
  19.     struct node *head = NULL;
  20.  
  21.     generate(&head);
  22.     printf("\nDisplaying the alternate nodes\n");
  23.     display(head);
  24.     delete(&head);
  25.  
  26.     return 0;
  27. }
  28.  
  29. void display(struct node *head)
  30. {
  31.     static flag = 0;
  32.     if(head != NULL)
  33.     {
  34.         if (!(flag % 2))
  35.         {
  36.            printf("%d  ", head->a);
  37.         }
  38.         flag++;
  39.         display(head->next);
  40.     }
  41. }
  42.  
  43. void generate(struct node **head)
  44. {
  45.     int num, i;
  46.     struct node *temp;
  47.  
  48.     printf("Enter length of list: ");
  49.     scanf("%d", &num);
  50.     for (i = num; i > 0; i--)
  51.     {
  52.         temp = (struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
  53.         temp->a = i;
  54.         if (*head == NULL)
  55.         {
  56.             *head = temp;
  57.             (*head)->next = NULL;
  58.         }
  59.         else
  60.         {
  61.             temp->next = *head;
  62.             *head = temp;
  63.         }
  64.     }
  65. }
  66.  
  67. void delete(struct node **head)
  68. {
  69.     struct node *temp;
  70.     while (*head != NULL)
  71.     {
  72.         temp = *head;
  73.         *head = (*head)->next;
  74.         free(temp);
  75.     }
  76. }

$ gcc alter_display.c -o alter_display
$ a.out
Enter length of list: 10
 
Displaying the alternate nodes
1  3  5  7  9

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