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binary tree breadth first traversal in c++

BFS is faster to find shortest path from root to leaf node of a tree. But the tradeoff is to use more memory. 

the basic trategy is to maintain a list to hold nodes of each level. 

 1 void BFS(TreeNode<T>* node){ 2    if(node == NULL) // if node is NULL, return 3       return; 4   else{ 5      std::list<TreeNode<T>* > current; 6      current.push_back(node); 7      while( current.size != 0){ 8         std::list<TreeNode<T>* > next_level; 9         for(std::list<TreeNode<T>* >::iterator itr = current.beign();10               itr != current.end(); ++itr){11            if(node->left) next_level.push_back(node->left);12            if(node->right) next_level.push_back(node->right);13         }14         current = next_level;15     }  16   }   17 }

you could use iterator to traverse the current list to print out the values as well. 

binary tree breadth first traversal in c++