[2018-Interview] Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Inorder Traversal

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

Note:
You may assume that duplicates do not exist in the tree.

For example, given

preorder = [3,9,20,15,7]
inorder = [9,3,15,20,7]

Return the following binary tree:

    3
   / \
  9  20
    /  \
   15   7

Answer from Jiuzhang:

/**
 * 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 {
    private int findPosition(int[] arr, int start, int end, int key) {
        int i;
        for (i = start; i <= end; i++) {
            if (arr[i] == key) {
                return i;
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }

    private TreeNode myBuildTree(int[] inorder, int instart, int inend,
            int[] preorder, int prestart, int preend) {
        if (instart > inend) {
            return null;
        }

        TreeNode root = new TreeNode(preorder[prestart]);
        int position = findPosition(inorder, instart, inend, preorder[prestart]);

        root.left = myBuildTree(inorder, instart, position - 1,
                preorder, prestart + 1, prestart + position - instart);
        root.right = myBuildTree(inorder, position + 1, inend,
                preorder, position - inend + preend + 1, preend);
        return root;
    }

    public TreeNode buildTree(int[] preorder, int[] inorder) {
        if (inorder.length != preorder.length) {
            return null;
        }
        return myBuildTree(inorder, 0, inorder.length - 1, preorder, 0, preorder.length - 1);
    }
}