Singly linked list node structure : C Programming

Before doing Singly Linked Operations we need to define structure for Linked List. Structure is collection of different data types in a single unit.

Node Structure for Singly Linked List :

struct node {
      int data;
      struct node *next;
}start = NULL;

In the above node structure we have defined two fields in structure -

No Field Significance
1 data It is Integer Part for Storing data inside Linked List Node
2 next It is pointer field which stores the address of another structure (i.e node)

Node-Structure-in-Singly-Linked-List

Explanation of Node Structure :

  1. We have declared structure of type “NODE”, i.e we have created a Single Linked List Node.
  2. A Node in general language is a Structure having two value containers i.e [Square box having two Partitions]
  3. One value container stores actual data and another stores address of the another structure i.e (Square box having two partitions)
  4. We have declared a structure and also created 1 very first structure called “Start”.
  5. Very first node “Start” contain 1 field for storing data and another field for address of another structure
  6. As this is very first node or Structure, we have specified its next field with “NULL” value.

[box]NULL means “NOTHING” , if next node is unavailable then initialize variable name to NULL.[/box]
Consider the topmost example of singly linked list which consists of 3 nodes. The actual linked list will be like this -
Singly Linked List Structure in C Programming