Lowest_Common_Ancestor_Binary_Tree.cpp

/**
Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.
According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes p and q as the lowest node in T that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”
Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1
Output: 3
Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 1 is 3.

 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    TreeNode* lowestCommonAncestor(TreeNode* root, TreeNode* p, TreeNode* q) {
        if(root == NULL){
            return NULL;
        }
        if(root->val == p->val || root->val == q->val){
            return root;
        }
        TreeNode* l = lowestCommonAncestor(root->left, p, q);
        TreeNode* r = lowestCommonAncestor(root->right, p, q);
        if(l != NULL && r != NULL){
            return root;
        }
        if(l == NULL){
            return r;
        }
        return l;
        
    }
};