It is given that A is root and its children are B, C, D and also we know that B has a child E. My question is how to insert elements recursively instead of adding element by element if we know connection between them?
class Node {
public:
string key;
vector<Node*> child;
// constructor
Node(string data)
{
key = data;
}
};
//main
Node* root = new Node("A");
(root->child).push_back(new Node("B"));
(root->child).push_back(new Node("C"));
(root->child).push_back(new Node("D"));
(root->child[0]->child).push_back(new Node("E"));
You can move recursively over the tree and add you element when find the parent node.
Consider this function:
bool insert(string s, string t, Node * root) { // will return true is success
if (root->key == s) { // found the parent -> insert the new node
(root->child).push_back(new Node(t));
return true;
}
bool ans = false;
for( int i =0; i< (root->child).size();i++){
ans |= insert(s, t, root->child[i]); recursive call to all the children
}
return ans;
}
Now when using it in the main:
int main()
{
Node* root = new Node("A");
cout << "status adding B to A: " << insert("A", "B", root) << endl; // return true
cout << "status adding E to G: " << insert("G", "E", root) << endl; // return false
cout << "status adding E to B: " << insert("B", "E", root) << endl; // return true
return 0;
}
Hope that helps!