Path Sum Problem & Solution

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.

See the path sum problem on LeetCode.

C++ Solution

#pragma GCC optimize("Ofast")
#pragma GCC optimization("max-inline-insns-recursive-auto")

static const int _=[](){std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false);cin.tie(nullptr);cout.tie(nullptr);return 0;}();

/**
 * 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 == nullptr) {
      return false;
    }

    if (root->left == nullptr && root->right == nullptr) {
      return targetSum == root->val;
    }

    return hasPathSum(root->left, targetSum - root->val) ||
      hasPathSum(root->right, targetSum - root->val);
  }
};

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