129. Sum Root to Leaf Numbers

# Medium

BFS, two ways: sum = sum*10 + root.val

  1. Queue + while loop

  2. Recursive

Solution 1: update evey node's value with path sum from root to this node

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode() : val(0), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x, TreeNode *left, TreeNode *right) : val(x), left(left), right(right) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    int sumNumbers(TreeNode* root) {
        queue<TreeNode*> q;
        // edge case
        if(root == NULL) return 0;
        if(root->left == NULL and root->right == NULL) return root->val;
        
        // regular case, BFS
        q.push(root);
        int sum = 0;
        while(!q.empty()) {
            int l = q.size();
            for(int i = 0; i < l; i ++) {
                root = q.front();
                q.pop();
                
                if(root->left != NULL) {
                    root->left->val = root->val*10 + root->left->val;
                    q.push(root->left);
                }
                if(root->right != NULL) {
                    root->right->val = root->val*10 + root->right->val;
                    q.push(root->right);
                }
                if(root->right == NULL and root->left == NULL) {
                    sum = sum + root->val;
                }
            }
        }
        
        return sum;
    }
};

Solution 2: subTree(root, sum) means sum path from root to all leaves, including root.

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