LeetCode in Kotlin

606. Construct String from Binary Tree

Easy

Given the root of a binary tree, construct a string consisting of parenthesis and integers from a binary tree with the preorder traversal way, and return it.

Omit all the empty parenthesis pairs that do not affect the one-to-one mapping relationship between the string and the original binary tree.

Example 1:

Input: root = [1,2,3,4]

Output: “1(2(4))(3)”

Explanation: Originally, it needs to be “1(2(4)())(3()())”, but you need to omit all the unnecessary empty parenthesis pairs. And it will be “1(2(4))(3)”

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,2,3,null,4]

Output: “1(2()(4))(3)”

Explanation: Almost the same as the first example, except we cannot omit the first parenthesis pair to break the one-to-one mapping relationship between the input and the output.

Constraints:

Solution

import com_github_leetcode.TreeNode

/*
 * Example:
 * var ti = TreeNode(5)
 * var v = ti.`val`
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * class TreeNode(var `val`: Int) {
 *     var left: TreeNode? = null
 *     var right: TreeNode? = null
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    fun tree2str(t: TreeNode?): String {
        if (t == null) {
            return ""
        }
        val sb = StringBuilder()
        preorder(t, sb)
        return sb.toString()
    }

    private fun preorder(root: TreeNode?, sb: StringBuilder) {
        if (root == null) {
            return
        }
        sb.append(root.`val`)
        if (root.left != null) {
            sb.append("(")
            preorder(root.left, sb)
            sb.append(")")
        }
        if (root.right != null) {
            if (root.left == null) {
                sb.append("()")
            }
            sb.append("(")
            preorder(root.right, sb)
            sb.append(")")
        }
    }
}