- Difficulty: Easy
- Tags: LeetCode, Easy, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree, leetcode-2689, Binary Search Tree, O(h), O(1), Medium, 🔒, BST
Problem
You are given the root
of a binary tree and an integer k
. Besides the left and right children, every node of this tree has two other properties, a string node.val
containing only lowercase English letters (possibly empty) and a non-negative integer node.len
. There are two types of nodes in this tree:
- Leaf: These nodes have no children,
node.len = 0
, andnode.val
is some non-empty string. - Internal: These nodes have at least one child (also at most two children),
node.len > 0
, andnode.val
is an empty string.
The tree described above is called a Rope binary tree. Now we define S[node]
recursively as follows:
- If
node
is some leaf node,S[node] = node.val
, - Otherwise if
node
is some internal node,S[node] = concat(S[node.left], S[node.right])
andS[node].length = node.len
.
Return k-th character of the string S[root]
.
Note: If s
and p
are two strings, concat(s, p)
is a string obtained by concatenating p
to s
. For example, concat("ab", "zz") = "abzz"
.
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Example 1:
Input: root = [10,4,"abcpoe","g","rta"], k = 6 Output: "b" Explanation: In the picture below, we put an integer on internal nodes that represents node.len, and a string on leaf nodes that represents node.val. You can see that S[root] = concat(concat("g", "rta"), "abcpoe") = "grtaabcpoe". So S[root][5], which represents 6th character of it, is equal to "b".
Example 2:
Input: root = [12,6,6,"abc","efg","hij","klm"], k = 3 Output: "c" Explanation: In the picture below, we put an integer on internal nodes that represents node.len, and a string on leaf nodes that represents node.val. You can see that S[root] = concat(concat("abc", "efg"), concat("hij", "klm")) = "abcefghijklm". So S[root][2], which represents the 3rd character of it, is equal to "c".
Example 3:
Input: root = ["ropetree"], k = 8 Output: "e" Explanation: In the picture below, we put an integer on internal nodes that represents node.len, and a string on leaf nodes that represents node.val. You can see that S[root] = "ropetree". So S[root][7], which represents 8th character of it, is equal to "e".
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Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[1, 103]
node.val
contains only lowercase English letters0 <= node.val.length <= 50
0 <= node.len <= 104
- for leaf nodes,
node.len = 0
andnode.val
is non-empty - for internal nodes,
node.len > 0
andnode.val
is empty 1 <= k <= S[root].length