Find Leaves of Binary Tree 07/25

此方法用到index的概念,最外层叶子,index是0,叶子的左右孩子是空,那么返回0, 叶子节点的index就是0,如果res的size小于等于index的话,建立list,放入res内,index增加1,如果res的size 大于index的话,说明此层节点的list已经建立,只需要按照index找到即可。index要去left 和right的的最大值是有的时候节点只有一个儿子,会造成左右返回值不一样,最大的那个才是正确的index,因为此方法遍历了所有节点,所以时间复杂度是O(N)

/**
 * Definition of TreeNode:
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     public int val;
 *     public TreeNode left, right;
 *     public TreeNode(int val) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.left = this.right = null;
 *     }
 * }
 */


public class Solution {
    /*
     * @param root: the root of binary tree
     * @return: collect and remove all leaves
     */
    public List<List<Integer>> findLeaves(TreeNode root) {
        // write your code here
        
        List<List<Integer>> res = new ArrayList<>();
        if(root == null){
            return res;
        }
        helper(root,res);
        
        return res;
    }
    
    
    
    public int helper(TreeNode root,List<List<Integer>> res){
        if(root == null){
            return 0;
        }
        
        
        int left = helper(root.left,res);
        int right = helper(root.right,res);
        
        
        int index = Math.max(left,right);
        
        if(res.size() <= index){
            List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
            list.add(root.val);
            res.add(list);
        }else{
            res.get(index).add(root.val);
        }
        
        return index+1;
        
        
    }
}

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