Kth Smallest Element in a BST

https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-smallest-element-in-a-bst/description/

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?

Thoughts

看到bst先想到中序遍历能有序,找第k个正好利用到这个性质。

Code

/**
 * 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;
    }
}

Analysis

花费10min.

Errors:

  1. index初始化成了-1

时间复杂度为遍历所需O(n)。

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