Binary Tree Postorder Traversal
ID: 145; easy
Last updated
ID: 145; easy
Last updated
/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* type TreeNode struct {
* Val int
* Left *TreeNode
* Right *TreeNode
* }
*/
func postorderTraversal(root *TreeNode) []int {
res := make([]int, 0)
postorderHelper(root, &res)
return res
}
func postorderHelper(root *TreeNode, res *[]int) {
if root != nil {
postorderHelper(root.Left, res)
postorderHelper(root.Right, res)
*res = append(*res, root.Val)
}
}
/**
* Definition of TreeNode:
* public class TreeNode {
* public int val;
* public TreeNode left, right;
* public TreeNode(int val) {
* this.val = val;
* this.left = this.right = null;
* }
* }
*/
public class Solution {
/**
* @param root: A Tree
* @return: Postorder in ArrayList which contains node values.
*/
public List<Integer> postorderTraversal(TreeNode root) {
List<Integer> result = new ArrayList<>();
if (root == null) return result;
postorderTraversalHelper(root, result);
return result;
}
private void postorderTraversalHelper(TreeNode root, List<Integer> result) {
if (root == null) return;
postorderTraversalHelper(root.left, result);
postorderTraversalHelper(root.right, result);
result.add(root.val);
}
}
Recursion / Divide and conquer
/**
* Definition of TreeNode:
* public class TreeNode {
* public int val;
* public TreeNode left, right;
* public TreeNode(int val) {
* this.val = val;
* this.left = this.right = null;
* }
* }
*/
public class Solution {
/**
* @param root: A Tree
* @return: Postorder in ArrayList which contains node values.
*/
public List<Integer> postorderTraversal(TreeNode root) {
List<Integer> result = new ArrayList<>();
Deque<TreeNode> stack = new ArrayDeque<>();
if (root == null) return result;
TreeNode curr = root;
TreeNode prev = null;
stack.push(root);
while (!stack.isEmpty()) {
curr = stack.peek();
// traversal down the tree
if (prev == null || prev.left == curr || prev.right == curr) {
if (curr.left != null) {
stack.push(curr.left);
} else if (curr.right != null) {
stack.push(curr.right);
}
} else if (curr.left == prev) {
// if the left is visited, visit the right
if (curr.right != null) {
stack.push(curr.right);
}
} else { // curr.right == prev
// if the right is visited, visit the middle
result.add(curr.val);
stack.pop();
}
prev = curr;
}
return result;
}
}
Traversal