Given a binary search tree, write a function kthSmallest to find the kth smallest element in it.
Note:
You may assume k is always valid, 1 ≤ k ≤ BST's total elements.
Follow up:
What if the BST is modified (insert/delete operations) often and you need to find the kth smallest frequently? How would you optimize the kthSmallest routine?
/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* public class TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode left;
* TreeNode right;
* TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
* }
*/
class Solution {
private void pushLeft(Stack<TreeNode> stack, TreeNode node) {
while (node != null) {
stack.push(node);
node = node.left;
}
}
public int kthSmallest(TreeNode root, int k) {
int res = 0;
Stack<TreeNode> stack = new Stack<>();
pushLeft(stack, root);
while (!stack.isEmpty() && k > 0) {
TreeNode node = stack.pop();
k--;
res = node.val;
pushLeft(stack, node.right);
}
return res;
}
}