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LeetCode 75 - 872. Leaf-Similar Trees

Description

Consider all the leaves of a binary tree, from left to right order, the values of those leaves form a leaf value sequence*.*

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For example, in the given tree above, the leaf value sequence is (6, 7, 4, 9, 8).

Two binary trees are considered leaf-similar if their leaf value sequence is the same.

Return true if and only if the two given trees with head nodes root1 and root2 are leaf-similar.

Example 1:

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Input: root1 = [3,5,1,6,2,9,8,null,null,7,4], root2 = [3,5,1,6,7,4,2,null,null,null,null,null,null,9,8]
Output: true

Example 2:

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Input: root1 = [1,2,3], root2 = [1,3,2]
Output: false

Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in each tree will be in the range [1, 200].
  • Both of the given trees will have values in the range [0, 200].

Solutions

You can use DFS (depth-first search) to determine whether the current node is a leaf node, and if so, save it. The two arrays are then compared.

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/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode() : val(0), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x, TreeNode *left, TreeNode *right) : val(x), left(left),
 * right(right) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    bool leafSimilar(TreeNode* root1, TreeNode* root2) {
        std::vector<int> vec1;
        std::vector<int> vec2;

        dfs(root1, vec1);
        dfs(root2, vec2);
        return vec1 == vec2;
    }

private:
    void dfs(TreeNode* root, std::vector<int>& vec) {
        if (root == nullptr)
            return;
        if (root->left == nullptr && root->right == nullptr) {
            vec.push_back(root->val);
        } else {
            dfs(root->left, vec);
            dfs(root->right, vec);
        }
    }
};