Print all nodes that are at distance k from a leaf node
Given a Binary Tree and a positive integer k, print all nodes that are distance k from a leaf node.Here the meaning of distance is different from previous post. Here k distance from a leaf means k levels higher than a leaf node. For example if k is more than height of Binary Tree, then nothing should be printed. Expected time complexity is O(n) where n is the number nodes in the given Binary Tree.
The idea is to traverse the tree. Keep storing all ancestors till we hit a leaf node. When we reach a leaf node, we print the ancestor at distance k. We also need to keep track of nodes that are already printed as output. For that we use a boolean array visited[].
/* Program to print all nodes which are at distance k from a leaf */
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#define MAX_HEIGHT 10000
struct Node
{
int key;
Node *left, *right;
};
/* utility that allocates a new Node with the given key */
Node* newNode(int key)
{
Node* node = new Node;
node->key = key;
node->left = node->right = NULL;
return (node);
}
/* This function prints all nodes that are distance k from a leaf node
path[] --> Store ancestors of a node
visited[] --> Stores true if a node is printed as output. A node may be k
distance away from many leaves, we want to print it once */
void kDistantFromLeafUtil(Node* node, int path[], bool visited[],
int pathLen, int k)
{
// Base case
if (node==NULL) return;
/* append this Node to the path array */
path[pathLen] = node->key;
visited[pathLen] = false;
pathLen++;
/* it's a leaf, so print the ancestor at distance k only
if the ancestor is not already printed */
if (node->left == NULL && node->right == NULL &&
pathLen-k-1 >= 0 && visited[pathLen-k-1] == false)
{
cout << path[pathLen-k-1] << " ";
visited[pathLen-k-1] = true;
return;
}
/* If not leaf node, recur for left and right subtrees */
kDistantFromLeafUtil(node->left, path, visited, pathLen, k);
kDistantFromLeafUtil(node->right, path, visited, pathLen, k);
}
/* Given a binary tree and a nuber k, print all nodes that are k
distant from a leaf*/
void printKDistantfromLeaf(Node* node, int k)
{
int path[MAX_HEIGHT];
bool visited[MAX_HEIGHT] = {false};
kDistantFromLeafUtil(node, path, visited, 0, k);
}
/* Driver program to test above functions*/
int main()
{
// Let us create binary tree given in the above example
Node * root = newNode(1);
root->left = newNode(2);
root->right = newNode(3);
root->left->left = newNode(4);
root->left->right = newNode(5);
root->right->left = newNode(6);
root->right->right = newNode(7);
root->right->left->right = newNode(8);
cout << "Nodes at distance 2 are: ";
printKDistantfromLeaf(root, 2);
return 0;
}