How to insert a node in a linked list recursively?

A linked list is a recursive data structure. A recursive data structure is a data structure that has the same form regardless of the size of the data. If you haven’t already gone through the concepts of a linked list, I recommend you to go through my previous article on linked list first.

The recursive method for inserting a node in a singly linked list is simple and given below:

struct node *insert(struct node *p, int n)
{
        struct node *temp;
        if(p==NULL)
        {
                p=(struct node *)malloc(sizeof(struct node));
                if(p==NULL)
                {
                        printf("Error\n");
                        exit(0);
                }
                p-> data = n;
                p-> link = NULL;
        }
        else
                p->link = insert(p->link,n);/* the while loop replaced by
                                               recursive call */
        return (p);
}

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