2025-02-23 Daily Challenge
Today I have done leetcode's February LeetCoding Challenge with cpp
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February LeetCoding Challenge 23
Description
Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Postorder Traversal
Given two integer arrays, preorder
and postorder
where preorder
is the preorder traversal of a binary tree of distinct values and postorder
is the postorder traversal of the same tree, reconstruct and return the binary tree.
If there exist multiple answers, you can return any of them.
Example 1:

Input: preorder = [1,2,4,5,3,6,7], postorder = [4,5,2,6,7,3,1] Output: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
Example 2:
Input: preorder = [1], postorder = [1] Output: [1]
Constraints:
1 <= preorder.length <= 30
1 <= preorder[i] <= preorder.length
- All the values of
preorder
are unique. postorder.length == preorder.length
1 <= postorder[i] <= postorder.length
- All the values of
postorder
are unique. - It is guaranteed that
preorder
andpostorder
are the preorder traversal and postorder traversal of the same binary tree.
Solution
class Solution {
public:
TreeNode* constructFromPrePost(
vector<int>& preorder,
vector<int>& postorder,
int prebegin = -1,
int preend = -1,
int postbegin = -1,
int postend = -1
) {
if(prebegin == -1) {
prebegin = 0;
preend = preorder.size() - 1;
postbegin = 0;
postend = preorder.size() - 1;
}
if(prebegin > preend) return nullptr;
TreeNode *root = new TreeNode(preorder[prebegin]);
if(prebegin == preend) return root;
int pivot = -1;
for(int i = postbegin; i <= postend && pivot == -1; ++i) {
if(postorder[i] == preorder[prebegin + 1]) {
int offset = i - postbegin;
root->left = constructFromPrePost(preorder, postorder, prebegin + 1, prebegin + 1 + offset, postbegin, postbegin + offset);
pivot = offset;
}
}
if(prebegin + 1 + pivot == preend) return root;
root->right = constructFromPrePost(preorder, postorder, prebegin + 1 + pivot + 1, preend, postbegin + pivot + 1, postend - 1);
return root;
}
};
// Accepted
// 306/306 cases passed (0 ms)
// Your runtime beats 100 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 56.32 % of cpp submissions (28.2 MB)