Given a binary search tree, write a function kthSmallest
to find the kth smallest element in it.
Note:
You may assume k is always valid, 1 ≤ k ≤ BST's total elements.
Follow up:
What if the BST is modified (insert/delete operations) often and you need to find the kth smallest frequently? How would you optimize the kthSmallest routine?
/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* struct TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode *left;
* TreeNode *right;
* TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
* };
*/
class Solution {
public:
int kthSmallest(TreeNode* root, int k) {
stack<TreeNode*> s;
while(true)
{
while(root)
{
s.push(root);
root = root->left;
}
root = s.top();
s.pop();
--k;
if(k == 0)
{
break;
}
root = root->right;
}
return root->val;
}
};