Path Sum

Tags : tree, dfs, binary-tree, leetcode, cpp, easy

Given the root of a binary tree and an integer targetSum, return true if the tree has a root-to-leaf path such that adding up all the values along the path equals targetSum.

A leaf is a node with no children.

Examples #

Example 1:

Input: root = [5,4,8,11,null,13,4,7,2,null,null,null,1], targetSum = 22
Output: true

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,2,3], targetSum = 5
Output: false

Example 3:

Input: root = [1,2], targetSum = 0
Output: false

Constraints #

Solutions #

/**
 * 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:
    bool hasPathSum(TreeNode* root, int targetSum) {
        if(!root) return false;
        targetSum -= root->val; 
        if(targetSum == 0 and !root->left and !root->right) return true;
        return hasPathSum(root->left,targetSum) or hasPathSum(root->right, targetSum);
    }
};