- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Tree, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Binary Tree, leetcode-742, O(n)
Problem
Given the root
of a binary tree where every node has a unique value and a target integer k
, return the value of the nearest leaf node to the target k
in the tree.
Nearest to a leaf means the least number of edges traveled on the binary tree to reach any leaf of the tree. Also, a node is called a leaf if it has no children.
Example 1:
Input: root = [1,3,2], k = 1 Output: 2 Explanation: Either 2 or 3 is the nearest leaf node to the target of 1.
Example 2:
Input: root = [1], k = 1 Output: 1 Explanation: The nearest leaf node is the root node itself.
Example 3:
Input: root = [1,2,3,4,null,null,null,5,null,6], k = 2 Output: 3 Explanation: The leaf node with value 3 (and not the leaf node with value 6) is nearest to the node with value 2.
Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[1, 1000]
. 1 <= Node.val <= 1000
- All the values of the tree are unique.
- There exist some node in the tree where
Node.val == k
.