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Compare two linked lists where each node contains a character array.
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1Give yourself 5 minutes
2Answer out loud, not in your head
3Then compare with the answer below
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- 01Clarify whether chunk boundaries are irrelevant.
- 02Keep a node pointer and offset for each list.
- 03Compare one character at a time.
- 04Advance past exhausted arrays and empty nodes.
- 05Accept only when both streams end.
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How would you compare case-insensitively without allocation?
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