programming-examples/ruby/Algorithms/bst.rb

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module BST
Node = Struct.new(:value, :parent, :left, :right)
# Finds the 'next' node (in-order successor) of a given node in a binary search tree,
# see examples in test/bst_test.rb
def self.find_next(node)
return nil if node.nil?
# find the left most node in the right subtree
if node.right
n = node.right
n = n.left while n.left
return n
end
# otherwise go up until we're on the left side
n = node
p = n.parent
while p && p.left != n
n = p
p = p.parent
end
p
end
end