Middle of the Linked List

April 8, 2020

Introduction

Given a non-empty, singly linked list with head node head, return a middle node of linked list.

If there are two middle nodes, return the second middle node.

Example 1:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: Node 3 from this list (Serialization: [3,4,5])
The returned node has value 3.  (The judge's serialization of this node is [3,4,5]).
Note that we returned a ListNode object ans, such that:
ans.val = 3, ans.next.val = 4, ans.next.next.val = 5, and ans.next.next.next = NULL.

Example 2:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Output: Node 4 from this list (Serialization: [4,5,6])
Since the list has two middle nodes with values 3 and 4, we return the second one.

Note:

The number of nodes in the given list will be between 1 and 100.

Solution

func middleNode(head *ListNode) *ListNode {
    cache := make([]*ListNode, 101)
    i := 0
    for next := head; next != nil; next = next.Next {
        cache[i] = next
        i++
    }
    return cache[i / 2]
}