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Circular Linked list is a sequence of nodes in which every node connects to its next node in the sequence, by the pointer. The last node also connects to the first node in the sequence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hence a circular linked list is similar to the singly linked list with an extra pointer. The last node instead of having a NULL pointer, has the address of the first node.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Example<\/b>– Below circular linked list having four nodes and the last node has the address of the first node.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Also read: Singly Linked List<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Also read: Doubly Linked List<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Also read: Circular Doubly Linked List<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Advantages of Circular Linked List:<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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    No node in the circular linked list doesn’t have the NULL pointer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    In a circular linked list, any node can be a starting node. Because we can traverse all nodes by starting from any node and we just need to stop when the first visited node is visited again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Circular linked list is also useful for implementation of queue data structure. Because, when we implement a queue using a singly linked list we have to maintain two pointers (front and rear). But when we implement a queue using a circular linked list, we have to maintain a single pointer to the last inserted node and the front node can always be obtained as next to the last node.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    Example<\/b>– The below example shows us how to create circular linked list and how to traverse it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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    This is how our circular linked list looked like:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    If you want to understand the above program then click here<\/a>!<\/span><\/h3>\n

    If you find any problem related to this article, please comment below or contact me here<\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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