105. Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Inorder Traversal

1. Description

Given two integer arrays preorder and inorder where preorder is the preorder traversal of a binary tree and inorder is the inorder traversal of the same tree, construct and return the binary tree.

2. Example

Example 1

Example 1
Input: preorder = [3,9,20,15,7], inorder = [9,3,15,20,7]
Output: [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]

Example 2

Input: preorder = [-1], inorder = [-1]
Output: [-1]

3. Constraints

  • 1 <= preorder.length <= 3000
  • inorder.length == preorder.length
  • -3000 <= preorder[i], inorder[i] <= 3000
  • preorder and inorder consist of unique values.
  • Each value of inorder also appears in preorder.
  • preorder is guaranteed to be the preorder traversal of the tree.
  • inorder is guaranteed to be the inorder traversal of the tree.

4. Solutions

Recursion

n = preorder.size()
Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n)

class Solution {
public:
    TreeNode *buildTree(const vector<int> &preorder, const vector<int> &inorder) {
        const int n = preorder.size();
        unordered_map<int, int> inorder_index;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
            inorder_index[inorder[i]] = i;
        }

        return build_tree(preorder, 0, n, 0, n, inorder_index);
    }

private:
    TreeNode *build_tree(
        const vector<int> &preorder,
        int pre_left,
        int pre_right,
        int in_left,
        int in_right,
        const unordered_map<int, int> &inorder_index) {
        if (pre_left == pre_right) {
            return nullptr;
        } else {
            TreeNode *root = new TreeNode(preorder[pre_left]);
            int index = inorder_index.at(preorder[pre_left]);

            root->left = build_tree(
                preorder,
                pre_left + 1,
                pre_left + 1 + index - in_left,
                in_left,
                index,
                inorder_index);
            root->right = build_tree(
                preorder,
                pre_left + 1 + index - in_left,
                pre_right,
                index + 1,
                in_right,
                inorder_index);

            return root;
        }
    }
};
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