Re: Tree Traversal

From:
"Jeff Higgins" <oohiggins@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:39:24 -0400
Message-ID:
<JaXzi.8$211.5@newsfe03.lga>
Mark Space wrote:

I wrote the following in-order tree traversal without using recursion, just
to see if I could. It appears to work. If anyone would like to check it
to see if they can find any errors, I'd appreciate it.

No it's not homework, just a self-exercise in programming. ^_^


prints true
where english-words.20 is from scowl-6.zip
<http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/>

/*
 * Traverse.java
 *
 * Created on August 24, 2007, 6:34 AM
 * Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.
 * To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */

package treetraversal;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Stack;

/**
 *
 * @author B
 */
public class Traverse
{
  BinaryTreeNode tree;

  /** Creates a new instance of Traverse */
  public Traverse()
  {
  }

  /**
   * @param args the command line arguments
   */
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    List<String> words;
    List<String> shuffledWords;
    List<String> unShuffledWords;

    Traverse t = new Traverse();
    words = t.makeWordList();
    shuffledWords = t.makeWordList();
    Collections.shuffle(shuffledWords);
    t.makeRandomTree(shuffledWords);
    unShuffledWords = t.traverseTree();
    if(words.size() == unShuffledWords.size())
    {
      boolean test = true;
      for(int idx = 0; idx < words.size(); idx++)
      {
        if(words.get(idx).compareTo(unShuffledWords.get(idx)) != 0)
        {
          System.out.println("False at index " + idx);
          test = false;
        }
      }
      System.out.println(test);
    }
  }

  private void makeRandomTree(List<String> lst)
  {
    for(String str : lst)
    {
      BinaryTreeNode n = new BinaryTreeNode();
      n.value = str;
      insertNode( this.tree, n );
    }
  }

  private List<String> makeWordList()
  {
    BufferedReader buf;
    List<String> ret = null;
    try
    {
      buf = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("english-words.20"));
      ret = new ArrayList<String>();
      String tmp;
      while((tmp = buf.readLine()) != null)
      {
        ret.add(tmp);
      }
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return ret;
  }

  private void insertNode( BinaryTreeNode parent, BinaryTreeNode node )
  {
    if( this.tree == null )
      this.tree = node;
    else
    {
      BinaryTreeNode n = this.tree;
      while(true)
      {
        if( node.value.compareTo(n.value) < 0 )
        {
          if( n.left != null )
            n = n.left;
          else
          {
            n.left = node;
            break;
          }
        }
        else
        {
          if( n.right != null )
            n = n.right;
          else
          {
            n.right = node;
            break;
          }
        }
      }

    }
  }

  private List<String> traverseTree()
  {
    // In-order tree traversal, with out using recursion

    BinaryTreeNode node = tree;
    BinaryTreeNode temp = null;
    Stack<BinaryTreeNode> nodeStack = new Stack<BinaryTreeNode>();
    List<String> ret = new ArrayList<String>();

    // note: all of the while(true) loops are, effectively, not while
      // loops at all. They are just place-holders for their associated
    // labels. None of these while loops ever actually loop.

    if( tree == null )
      return null;
    left_node:
      while(true)
      {
        while( node.left != null )
        {
          temp = node;
          node = node.left;
          nodeStack.push(temp);

        }

        visit_current:
          while(true)
          {
            ret.add(node.value);

            if( node.right != null )
            {
              temp = node;
              node = node.right;
              nodeStack.push(temp);
              continue left_node;
            }
            else
              pop_parent:
                while(true)
                {
                  if( nodeStack.isEmpty() )
                  {
                    break left_node; // DONE! Exit traversal
                  }
                  temp = nodeStack.pop();
                  if( temp.left == node )
                  {
                    node = temp;
                    //goto visit_current
                    continue visit_current;
                  }
                  else
                  {
                    node = temp;
                    // goto pop_parent
                    continue pop_parent;
                  }
                }
          }
      }
    return ret;
  }

  private void visitNode( BinaryTreeNode node )
  {
    System.out.println( node.value );
  }

}

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