树中两片叶子的最低共同祖先

Question

我有以下树结构：

struct Node {
   int data;
   Node* parent = nullptr;
}

其中每个节点最多有一个父节点，但可以有多个子节点。我试图找到两个没有任何子节点(node1和node2)的最低共同祖先。

这是我当前的代码：

std::vector<Node*> ancestors1;
std::vector<Node*> ancestors2;
temp_node = node1->parent;
while(temp_node!=nullptr) {
    ancestors1.push_back(temp_node);
    temp_node = temp_node->parent;
}
temp_node = node2->parent;
while(temp_node!=nullptr) {
    ancestors2.push_back(temp_node);
    temp_node = temp_node->parent;
}
Node* common_ancestor = nullptr;
if (ancestors1.size() < ancestors2.size()) {
    ptrdiff_t t = ancestors1.end() - ancestors1.begin();
    std::vector<Node*>::iterator it1 = ancestors1.begin();
    std::vector<Node*>::iterator it2 = ancestors2.end() - t;
    while(it1!=ancestors1.end()) {
        if (*it1 == *it2) {
            common_ancestor = *it1;
        }
        ++it1;
    }
} else {
    ptrdiff_t t = ancestors2.end() - ancestors2.begin();
    std::vector<Node*>::iterator it2 = ancestors2.begin();
    std::vector<Node*>::iterator it1 = ancestors1.end() - t;
    while(it2!=ancestors2.end()) {
        if (*it1 == *it2) {
            common_ancestor = *it1;
        }
        ++it2;
    }
}
return common_ancestor

这段代码并不总是起作用，我不知道为什么。

Answer 1

对不起，我无法抗拒。

除了错别字和错误，我相信它看起来更简单：

#include <cassert>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

struct Node {
  int data;
  Node *parent = nullptr;
};

Node* findCommonAncestor(Node *pNode1, Node *pNode2)
{
  // find paths of pNode1 and pNode2
  std::vector<Node*> path1, path2;
  for (; pNode1; pNode1 = pNode1->parent) path1.push_back(pNode1);
  for (; pNode2; pNode2 = pNode2->parent) path2.push_back(pNode2);
  // revert paths to make indexing simple
  std::reverse(path1.begin(), path1.end());
  std::reverse(path2.begin(), path2.end());
  // compare paths
  Node *pNode = nullptr; // ancestor
  size_t n = std::min(path1.size(), path2.size());
  for (size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
    if (path1[i] == path2[i]) pNode = path1[i];
    else break;
  }
  // done
  return pNode;
}

int main()
{
  // sample tree:
  /*     1
   *     |
   *     2
   *    / \
   *   3   4
   *       |
   *       5
   */
  Node node1 = { 1, nullptr };
  Node node2 = { 2, &node1 };
  Node node3 = { 3, &node2 };
  Node node4 = { 4, &node2 };
  Node node5 = { 5, &node4 };
  Node *pNode = findCommonAncestor(&node3, &node5);
  if (pNode) {
    std::cout << "Lowest common ancestor: " << pNode->data << '\n';
  } else {
    std::cout << "No common ancestor found!\n";
  }
}

产出：

Lowest common ancestor: 2