Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.
According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes p and q as the lowest node in T that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”
/**
* 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* lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode* root, TreeNode* p, TreeNode* q) {
if(root==NULL||root==p||root==q)
return root;
list<TreeNode *> pathp;
list<TreeNode *> pathq;
getPath(root,p,pathp);
getPath(root,q,pathq);
TreeNode *ret=NULL;
ret=getNode(pathp,pathq);
return ret;
}
bool getPath(TreeNode *root,TreeNode *h,list<TreeNode *> &path)
{
if(root==h)
return true;
path.push_back(root);
if(root->left)
{
path.push_back(root->left);
if(getPath(root->left,h,path))
return true;
path.pop_back();
}
if(root->right)
{
path.push_back(root->right);
if(getPath(root->right,h,path))
return true;
path.pop_back();
}
path.pop_back();
return false;
}
TreeNode* getNode(list<TreeNode*> &pathp,list<TreeNode*> &pathq)
{
auto i1=pathp.begin();
auto i2=pathq.begin();
TreeNode *ret=NULL;
while(i1!=pathp.end()&&i2!=pathq.end())
{
if(*i1==*i2)
ret=*i1;
i1++;
i2++;
}
return ret;
}
};