lintcode-medium-Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Inorder Traversal

Given preorder and inorder traversal of a tree, construct the binary tree.

Given in-order [1,2,3] and pre-order [2,1,3], return a tree:

  2
 / 1   3

/**
 * Definition of TreeNode:
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     public int val;
 *     public TreeNode left, right;
 *     public TreeNode(int val) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.left = this.right = null;
 *     }
 * }
 */

public class Solution {
    /**
     *@param preorder : A list of integers that preorder traversal of a tree
     *@param inorder : A list of integers that inorder traversal of a tree
     *@return : Root of a tree
     */
    public TreeNode buildTree(int[] preorder, int[] inorder) {
        // write your code here

        if(preorder == null || preorder.length == 0)
            return null;

        int size = preorder.length;

        TreeNode root = build(preorder, 0, size - 1, inorder, 0, size - 1);

        return root;
    }

    public TreeNode build(int[] preorder, int pre_start, int pre_end, int[] inorder, int in_start, int in_end){

        if(pre_start > pre_end || in_start > in_end)
            return null;

        TreeNode root = new TreeNode(preorder[pre_start]);

        int k = in_start;
        for(; k <= in_end; k++){
            if(inorder[k] == preorder[pre_start])
                break;
        }

        TreeNode left = build(preorder, pre_start + 1, pre_start + k - in_start, inorder, in_start, k - 1);
        TreeNode right = build(preorder, pre_start + k - in_start + 1, pre_end, inorder, k + 1, in_end);

        root.left = left;
        root.right = right;

        return root;
    }

}