LeetCode in Kotlin

1028. Recover a Tree From Preorder Traversal

Hard

We run a preorder depth-first search (DFS) on the root of a binary tree.

At each node in this traversal, we output D dashes (where D is the depth of this node), then we output the value of this node. If the depth of a node is D, the depth of its immediate child is D + 1. The depth of the root node is 0.

If a node has only one child, that child is guaranteed to be the left child.

Given the output traversal of this traversal, recover the tree and return its root.

Example 1:

Input: traversal = “1-2–3–4-5–6–7”

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

Example 2:

Input: traversal = “1-2–3—4-5–6—7”

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

Example 3:

Input: traversal = “1-401–349—90–88”

Output: [1,401,null,349,88,90]

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 ptr = 0

    fun recoverFromPreorder(traversal: String): TreeNode? {
        return find(traversal, 0)
    }

    private fun find(traversal: String, level: Int): TreeNode? {
        if (ptr == traversal.length) {
            return null
        }
        var i = ptr
        var count = 0
        while (traversal[i] == '-') {
            count++
            i++
        }
        return if (count == level) {
            val start = i
            while (i < traversal.length && traversal[i] != '-') {
                i++
            }
            val `val` = traversal.substring(start, i).toInt()
            ptr = i
            val root = TreeNode(`val`)
            root.left = find(traversal, level + 1)
            root.right = find(traversal, level + 1)
            root
        } else {
            null
        }
    }
}