LeetCode in Kotlin

889. Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Postorder Traversal

Medium

Given two integer arrays, preorder and postorder where preorder is the preorder traversal of a binary tree of distinct values and postorder is the postorder traversal of the same tree, reconstruct and return the binary tree.

If there exist multiple answers, you can return any of them.

Example 1:

Input: preorder = [1,2,4,5,3,6,7], postorder = [4,5,2,6,7,3,1]

Output: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

Example 2:

Input: preorder = [1], postorder = [1]

Output: [1]

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 constructFromPrePost(preorder: IntArray, postorder: IntArray): TreeNode? {
        return if (preorder.isEmpty() || preorder.size != postorder.size) {
            null
        } else buildTree(preorder, 0, preorder.size - 1, postorder, 0, postorder.size - 1)
    }

    private fun buildTree(
        preorder: IntArray,
        preStart: Int,
        preEnd: Int,
        postorder: IntArray,
        postStart: Int,
        postEnd: Int
    ): TreeNode? {
        if (preStart > preEnd || postStart > postEnd) {
            return null
        }
        val data = preorder[preStart]
        val root = TreeNode(data)
        if (preStart == preEnd) {
            return root
        }
        var offset = postStart
        while (offset <= preEnd) {
            if (postorder[offset] == preorder[preStart + 1]) {
                break
            }
            offset++
        }
        root.left = buildTree(
            preorder,
            preStart + 1,
            preStart + offset - postStart + 1,
            postorder,
            postStart,
            offset
        )
        root.right = buildTree(
            preorder,
            preStart + offset - postStart + 2,
            preEnd,
            postorder,
            offset + 1,
            postEnd - 1
        )
        return root
    }
}