What is a coding example of a Singly Linked search?

Searching is performed in order to find the location of a particular element in the list. Searching any element in the list needs traversing through the list and make the comparison of every element of the list with the specified element. If the element is matched with any of the list element then the location of the element is returned from the function.

Algorithm
Step 1: SET PTR = HEAD
Step 2: Set I = 0
STEP 3: IF PTR = NULL
  WRITE "EMPTY LIST"
  GOTO STEP 8
  END OF IF

STEP 4: REPEAT STEP 5 TO 7 UNTIL PTR != NULL
STEP 5: if ptr → data = item
  write i+1
 End of IF

STEP 6: I = I + 1
STEP 7: PTR = PTR → NEXT
[END OF LOOP]

STEP 8: EXIT