606. Construct String from Binary Tree

https://leetcode.com/problems/construct-string-from-binary-tree/description/

Given the root of a binary tree, construct a string consisting of parenthesis and integers from a binary tree with the preorder traversal way, and return it. Omit all the empty parenthesis pairs that do not affect the one-to-one mapping relationship between the string and the original binary tree.

Example 1: Input: root = [1,2,3,4] Output: “1(2(4))(3)” Explanation: Originally, it needs to be “1(2(4)())(3()())”, but you need to omit all the unnecessary empty parenthesis pairs. And it will be “1(2(4))(3)” Example 2: Input: root = [1,2,3,null,4] Output: “1(2()(4))(3)” Explanation: Almost the same as the first example, except we cannot omit the first parenthesis pair to break the one-to-one mapping relationship between the input and the output.

Constraints:

The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 104]. 	
-1000 <= Node.val <= 1000

  • code
/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode() {}
 *     TreeNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
 *     TreeNode(int val, TreeNode left, TreeNode right) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.left = left;
 *         this.right = right;
 *     }
 * }
 */
class Solution {

    private StringBuilder res = new StringBuilder();

    public void dfs(TreeNode root){
        if (root == null) return;
        res.append(Integer.toString(root.val));
        if (root.left == null && root.right == null) return;
        res.append('(');
        dfs(root.left);
        res.append(')');

        if (root.right != null){
            res.append('(');
            dfs(root.right);
            res.append(')');
        }
        
    }

    public String tree2str(TreeNode root) {
        dfs(root);
        return res.toString();
    }
}