LeetCode in Kotlin

1008. Construct Binary Search Tree from Preorder Traversal

Medium

Given an array of integers preorder, which represents the preorder traversal of a BST (i.e., binary search tree), construct the tree and return its root.

It is guaranteed that there is always possible to find a binary search tree with the given requirements for the given test cases.

A binary search tree is a binary tree where for every node, any descendant of Node.left has a value strictly less than Node.val, and any descendant of Node.right has a value strictly greater than Node.val.

A preorder traversal of a binary tree displays the value of the node first, then traverses Node.left, then traverses Node.right.

Example 1:

Input: preorder = [8,5,1,7,10,12]

Output: [8,5,10,1,7,null,12]

Example 2:

Input: preorder = [1,3]

Output: [1,null,3]

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 {
    private var i = 0
    fun bstFromPreorder(preorder: IntArray): TreeNode? {
        return bstFromPreorder(preorder, Int.MAX_VALUE)
    }

    private fun bstFromPreorder(preorder: IntArray, bound: Int): TreeNode? {
        if (i == preorder.size || preorder[i] > bound) {
            return null
        }
        val root = TreeNode(preorder[i++])
        root.left = bstFromPreorder(preorder, root.`val`)
        root.right = bstFromPreorder(preorder, bound)
        return root
    }
}