Flatten Binary Tree to Linked List
Given the root of a binary tree, flatten the tree into a "linked list":
- The "linked list" should use the same
TreeNodeclass where therightchild pointer points to the next node in the list and theleftchild pointer is alwaysnull. - The "linked list" should be in the same order as a pre-order traversal of the binary tree.
Follow up: Can you flatten the tree in-place with O(1) extra space?
Example 1
1
/ \
2 5 -> [1] -> [2] -> [3] -> [4] -> [5] -> [6] -> null
/ \ \
3 4 6Input
root = [1,2,5,3,4,null,6]Output
[1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,5,null,6]The tree is flattened in preorder so every node appears along the
right pointers and every left pointer is null.Example 2
null --- null
Input
root = []Output
[]An empty tree remains empty after flattening.
Constraints
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[0, 2000]. -100 <= Node.val <= 100