1. Problem Description

Invert a binary tree.

 

     4

   /   \

  2     7

 / \     / \

1   3  6  9

 

to

     4

   /   \

  7     2

 / \     / \

9   6  3  1

 

Trivia:

This problem was inspired by this original tweet by Max Howell:

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.

 

2. My solution（0ms）

反转二叉树，题目中给出的TreeNode类实现：

/** * Definition for a binary tree node. * struct TreeNode { * int val; * TreeNode *left; * TreeNode *right; * TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {} * }; */

思路很简单，递归交换左右子树，关键在于，如何交换两个指针的地址。

如果要交换两个指针的值，需要使用二级指针。

　　void swapp(TreeNode** t1,TreeNode** t2) { TreeNode* tmp; tmp=*t1; *t1=*t2; *t2=tmp; }

My AC code： 

class Solution { public: void swapp(TreeNode** t1,TreeNode** t2) { TreeNode* tmp; tmp=*t1; *t1=*t2; *t2=tmp; } void DFS(TreeNode* root) { if(root!=NULL) { DFS(root->left); DFS(root->right); swapp(&(root->left),&(root->right)); } } TreeNode* invertTree(TreeNode* root) { DFS(root); return root; } };

3. Simple solution 

class Solution { public: void DFS(TreeNode* root) { if(root!=NULL) { DFS(root->left); DFS(root->right); swap(root->left,root->right); } } TreeNode* invertTree(TreeNode* root) { DFS(root); return root; } };