- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Tree, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Hash Table, Binary Tree, leetcode-1660, O(n), O(w), 🔒, BFS
Problem
You have a binary tree with a small defect. There is exactly one invalid node where its right child incorrectly points to another node at the same depth but to the invalid node's right.
Given the root of the binary tree with this defect, root
, return the root of the binary tree after removing this invalid node and every node underneath it (minus the node it incorrectly points to).
Custom testing:
The test input is read as 3 lines:
TreeNode root
int fromNode
(not available tocorrectBinaryTree
)int toNode
(not available tocorrectBinaryTree
)
After the binary tree rooted at root
is parsed, the TreeNode
with value of fromNode
will have its right child pointer pointing to the TreeNode
with a value of toNode
. Then, root
is passed to correctBinaryTree
.
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Example 1:
Input: root = [1,2,3], fromNode = 2, toNode = 3 Output: [1,null,3] Explanation: The node with value 2 is invalid, so remove it.
Example 2:
Input: root = [8,3,1,7,null,9,4,2,null,null,null,5,6], fromNode = 7, toNode = 4 Output: [8,3,1,null,null,9,4,null,null,5,6] Explanation: The node with value 7 is invalid, so remove it and the node underneath it, node 2.
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Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[3, 104]
. -109 <= Node.val <= 109
- All
Node.val
are unique. fromNode != toNode
fromNode
andtoNode
will exist in the tree and will be on the same depth.toNode
is to the right offromNode
.fromNode.right
isnull
in the initial tree from the test data.