题目:501. Find Mode in Binary Search Tree
Given a binary search tree (BST) with duplicates, find all the mode(s) (the most frequently occurred element) in the given BST.
Assume a BST is defined as follows:
The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys less than or equal to the node's key.
The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys greater than or equal to the node's key.
Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.
For example:Given BST [1,null,2,2]
1
\
2
/
2
return [2]
Note: If a tree has more than one mode, you can return them in any order.
Follow up: Could you do that without using any extra space? (Assume that the implicit stack space incurred due to recursion does not count).
一个二叉搜索树,返回出现最多次数的value。
第一个想法是用HashMap,既可以查重,又可以计算次数,然而不符合follow up不用额外空间的要求,也没有利用到二叉搜索树的性质。
那么就是迭代了。对二叉搜索树,使用中序遍历可以完成值从小到大的遍历。这样相同的value必然连在一起,遇到一个不同于之前 value的node,就可以比较上一个value是否是最多次的value。
但是这题的陷阱和要注意的点非常多!
1.可能出现有多个次数相同的value的情况,但不知道会有几个,所以先用list暂存。
比如这样的情况:[1,1,2,null,null,null,2]
2.最后一个value的次数判断要回到主函数,因为后续没有node再和它比较,也就不能在helper中判定它的次数是否最多,因此preMax,value,cnt和resList这些变量要成为全局变量。
/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* public class TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode left;
* TreeNode right;
* TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
* }
*/
class Solution {
private List<Integer> resList = new ArrayList<Integer>();
public int cnt = -1; //so for the first node, cnt != preMax; Must be global vriable, to suitble for last node
private int value = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
private int preMax = 0;
public int[] findMode(TreeNode root) {
helper(root);//Left tree
//check if last value should be added
if(cnt > preMax){
resList.clear();
resList.add(value);//add the Previous value
}else if(cnt == preMax){
resList.add(value);
}
int len = resList.size();
int[] out = new int[len];
for(int i =0 ;i< len; i++){
out[i] = resList.get(i);
}
return out;
}
private void helper(TreeNode node){
if(node == null) return;
helper(node.left);//Left tree
if(node.val != value){
if(cnt > preMax){
resList.clear();
resList.add(value);//add the Previous value
preMax = cnt;
}else if(cnt == preMax){
resList.add(value);//add the Previous value
}
value = node.val;
cnt = 1;//it must be the first new value
}else{
cnt++;
}
helper(node.right);//Right tree
}
}