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 priorsearch(TreeNode* root, int& k){
if(root)
{
int x=priorsearch(root->left,k);
if(k==0) return x;
else
{
k--;
if(k==0)
{
return root->val;
}
else
return priorsearch(root->right,k);
}
}
return 0;
}
int kthSmallest(TreeNode* root, int k) {
return priorsearch(root,k);
}
};