1372. Longest ZigZag Path in a Binary Tree

1372. Longest ZigZag Path in a Binary Tree


문제

You are given the root of a binary tree.

A ZigZag path for a binary tree is defined as follow:

  • Choose any node in the binary tree and a direction (right or left).

  • If the current direction is right, move to the right child of the

  • current node; otherwise, move to the left child.

  • Change the direction from right to left or from left to right.

  • Repeat the second and third steps until you can’t move in the tree.

Zigzag length is defined as the number of nodes visited - 1. (A single node has a length of 0). Return the longest ZigZag path contained in that tree.

문제 사이트

Example 1:

그림 Input: root = [1,null,1,1,1,null,null,1,1,null,1,null,null,null,1] Output: 3 Explanation: Longest ZigZag path in blue nodes (right -> left -> right).

Example 2:

그림 Input: root = [1,1,1,null,1,null,null,1,1,null,1] Output: 4 Explanation: Longest ZigZag path in blue nodes (left -> right -> left -> right).

Example 3: Input: root = [1] Output: 0

Constraints:

The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 5 * 10^4]. 1 <= Node.val <= 100


문제 해석

  • 이진 트리에서 지그재그로 이동할 수 있는 최대 횟수를 물어보는 문제

구현

class Solution {
public:
    int longestZigZag(TreeNode* root) {
        ZigZag(root, true, 0);

        return count;
    }

    int count = 0;
    void ZigZag(TreeNode* node, bool goleft, int step) {
        if(!node)   return;
        count = max(count, step);
        if(goleft) // 이전에 오른쪽으로 갔었다는 것이므로 왼쪽으로 가야함
        {
            ZigZag(node->left, false, step + 1);
            ZigZag(node->right, true, 1);
        }
        else
        {
            ZigZag(node->left, false, 1);
            ZigZag(node->right, true, step+1);
        }
    }
};