[leetcode] problem 105 – construct binary tree from preorder and inorder traversal

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

Note

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

For example, given

preorder = [3,9,20,15,7]
inorder = [9,3,15,20,7]

Return the following binary tree:

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3
4
5
  3
/
9 20
/
15 7

Code

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public class  {
int val;
TreeNode left;
TreeNode right;
TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
}
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public TreeNode buildTree(int[] preorder, int[] inorder) {
return helper(preorder, inorder, 0, preorder.length - 1, 0, inorder.length - 1);
}

private TreeNode helper(int[] preorder, int[] inorder, int preStart, int preEnd, int inStart, int inEnd) {
if (preStart > preEnd || inStart > inEnd)
return null;

int i = inStart;

for (; i <= inEnd; i++) {
if (inorder[i] == preorder[preStart])
break;
}

TreeNode root = new TreeNode(preorder[preStart]);
root.left = helper(preorder, inorder, preStart + 1, preStart + i - inStart, inStart, i - 1);
root.right = helper(preorder, inorder, preStart + i - inStart + 1, preEnd, i + 1, inEnd);

return root;
}