LeetCode - 450 - Delete Node in a BST

Given a root node reference of a BST and a key, delete the node with the given key in the BST. Return the root node reference (possibly updated) of the BST.

Basically, the deletion can be divided into two stages:

1. Search for a node to remove.
2. If the node is found, delete the node.

Note: Time complexity should be O(height of tree).

Example:

root = [5,3,6,2,4,null,7]
key = 3

    5
   / \
  3   6
 / \   \
2   4   7

Given key to delete is 3. So we find the node with value 3 and delete it.

One valid answer is [5,4,6,2,null,null,7], shown in the following BST.

    5
   / \
  4   6
 /     \
2       7

Another valid answer is [5,2,6,null,4,null,7].

    5
   / \
  2   6
   \   \
    4   7

查找并删除BST中某个结点。

这道题，在我写了96行代码还在wa后，对你没看错，96行！我果断放弃了这个代码，围观评论区大神orzzzzzzz

然后发现自己蠢的没救了。。。为啥非要执着于把那个结点删除然后调个结点过来呢，咱就不能直接改变结点值么然后再去删除想要调的那个结点么！！！震惊哭QAQ

递归简直是脑残人的救星，在不会做的情况下，我还是不要纠结非得写非递归吧，找块豆腐撞死算了。

一路搜索下去，沿途改变各个结点的左右状态，一直都搜索到key结点，找到key的右子树中值最小的结点，赋值给key，并删除这个结点。时间复杂度O(h)

/**
 * 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:
    TreeNode* deleteNode(TreeNode* root, int key) {
        if (!root) return root;
        if (key < root->val)
            root->left = deleteNode(root->left, key);
        else if (key > root->val)
            root->right = deleteNode(root->right, key);
        else {
            if (!root->left) 
                return root->right;
            if (!root->right)
                return root->left;
            
            TreeNode* cur = finMin(root->right);
            root->val = cur->val;
            root->right = deleteNode(root->right, cur->val);
        }
        return root;
    }
    TreeNode* finMin(TreeNode* root) {
        while (root->left)
            root = root->left;
        return root;
    }
};