Tuesday, September 8, 2020

LeetCode [430] Flatten a Multilevel Doubly Linked List

 430. Flatten a Multilevel Doubly Linked List

Medium

You are given a doubly linked list which in addition to the next and previous pointers, it could have a child pointer, which may or may not point to a separate doubly linked list. These child lists may have one or more children of their own, and so on, to produce a multilevel data structure, as shown in the example below.

Flatten the list so that all the nodes appear in a single-level, doubly linked list. You are given the head of the first level of the list.

 

Example 1:

Input: head = [1,2,3,4,5,6,null,null,null,7,8,9,10,null,null,11,12]
Output: [1,2,3,7,8,11,12,9,10,4,5,6]
Explanation:

The multilevel linked list in the input is as follows:



After flattening the multilevel linked list it becomes:


Example 2:

Input: head = [1,2,null,3]
Output: [1,3,2]
Explanation:

The input multilevel linked list is as follows:

  1---2---NULL
  |
  3---NULL

Example 3:

Input: head = []
Output: []

 

How multilevel linked list is represented in test case:

We use the multilevel linked list from Example 1 above:

 1---2---3---4---5---6--NULL
         |
         7---8---9---10--NULL
             |
             11--12--NULL

The serialization of each level is as follows:

[1,2,3,4,5,6,null]
[7,8,9,10,null]
[11,12,null]

To serialize all levels together we will add nulls in each level to signify no node connects to the upper node of the previous level. The serialization becomes:

[1,2,3,4,5,6,null]
[null,null,7,8,9,10,null]
[null,11,12,null]

Merging the serialization of each level and removing trailing nulls we obtain:

[1,2,3,4,5,6,null,null,null,7,8,9,10,null,null,11,12]

 

Constraints:

  • Number of Nodes will not exceed 1000.
  • 1 <= Node.val <= 10^5
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/*
// Definition for a Node.
class Node {
    public int val;
    public Node prev;
    public Node next;
    public Node child;
};
*/

class Solution {
    public Node flatten(Node head) {
        Node p = head;
        if(p==null) return null;
        
        while(p != null){
            if(p.child==null){
                p = p.next;
            }else{
                Node n = p.next;
                Node c = p.child;
                Node t = c; //tail of child
                while(t.next != null) t = t.next;   
                
                t.next = n;
                if(n!=null) n.prev = t;
                p.next = c;
                c.prev = p;
                p.child = null;
            }
        }
        return head;
    }
}

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