[Leetcode] 80. Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Inorder Traversal

题目

Given preorder and inorder traversal of a tree, construct the binary tree.

Note:
You may assume that duplicates do not exist in the tree.

解题之法

/**
 * Definition for binary tree
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    TreeNode *buildTree(vector &preorder, vector &inorder) {
        return buildTree(preorder, 0, preorder.size() - 1, inorder, 0, inorder.size() - 1);
    }
    TreeNode *buildTree(vector &preorder, int pLeft, int pRight, vector &inorder, int iLeft, int iRight) {
        if (pLeft > pRight || iLeft > iRight) return NULL;
        int i = 0;
        for (i = iLeft; i <= iRight; ++i) {
            if (preorder[pLeft] == inorder[i]) break;
        }
        TreeNode *cur = new TreeNode(preorder[pLeft]);
        cur->left = buildTree(preorder, pLeft + 1, pLeft + i - iLeft, inorder, iLeft, i - 1);
        cur->right = buildTree(preorder, pLeft + i - iLeft + 1, pRight, inorder, i + 1, iRight);
        return cur;
    }
};

分析

这道题要求用先序和中序遍历来建立二叉树，跟之前那道Construct Binary Tree from Inorder and Postorder Traversal 由中序和后序遍历建立二叉树原理基本相同。
针对这道题，由于先序的顺序的第一个肯定是根，所以原二叉树的根节点可以知道，题目中给了一个很关键的条件就是树中没有相同元素，有了这个条件我们就可以在中序遍历中也定位出根节点的位置，并以根节点的位置将中序遍历拆分为左右两个部分，分别对其递归调用原函数。