This was a useful exercise in Pascal or C to learn how to use pointers. Helped with conceptualizing them, and also taught a thing or three about how to turn a description into an algorithm, handling end cases and always being aware of the actual contents of a variable, which are useful in programming in general.

But if I really need to keep track of what proceeds and what follows, I choose to avoid references/pointers as needlessly complex.

use strict;
use warnings;

my @list;

# Creating a doubly linked list

while (<DATA>){
  push @list, $_
}
chomp @list;

&print_list();

sub print_list {
  my $format = "%5s -> %5s -> %5s\n";
  printf $format,'prev','data','next';
  for (my $i=0; $i<$#list; $i++) {
    printf $format, $i>0  ? $list[$i-1] : 'undef',
      $list[$i], $i < $#list - 1 ? $list[$i+1] : 'undef'
  }

}

__DATA__
the
quick
brown
fox
jumps
over
the
lazy
dog

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Output:

 prev ->  data ->  next
undef ->   the -> quick
  the -> quick -> brown
quick -> brown ->   fox
brown ->   fox -> jumps
  fox -> jumps ->  over
jumps ->  over ->   the
 over ->   the ->  lazy
  the ->  lazy ->   dog
 lazy ->   dog -> undef

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Dum Spiro Spero

In reply to Re: Doubly link list implementation by GotToBTru
in thread Doubly link list implementation by punitpawar

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