513. Find Bottom Left Tree Value

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    Problem

    Given the root of a binary tree, return the leftmost value in the last row of the tree.

      Example 1:

    Input: root = [2,1,3]
    Output: 1
    

    Example 2:

    Input: root = [1,2,3,4,null,5,6,null,null,7]
    Output: 7
    

      Constraints:

    Solution (Java)

    /**
     * Definition for a binary tree node.
     * public class TreeNode {
     *     int val;
     *     TreeNode left;
     *     TreeNode right;
     *     TreeNode() {}
     *     TreeNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
     *     TreeNode(int val, TreeNode left, TreeNode right) {
     *         this.val = val;
     *         this.left = left;
     *         this.right = right;
     *     }
     * }
     */
    class Solution {
        private int[] func(TreeNode root, int level) {
            if (root.left == null && root.right == null) {
                int[] a = new int[2];
                a[0] = root.val;
                a[1] = level;
                return a;
            }
            int[] a = null;
            int[] b = null;
            if (root.left != null) {
                a = func(root.left, level + 1);
            }
            if (root.right != null) {
                b = func(root.right, level + 1);
            }
            if (a == null) {
                return b;
            } else if (b == null) {
                return a;
            } else {
                if (a[1] >= b[1]) {
                    return a;
                } else {
                    return b;
                }
            }
        }
    
        public int findBottomLeftValue(TreeNode root) {
            int[] a = func(root, 0);
            if (a != null && a.length > 0) {
                return a[0];
            }
            return -1;
        }
    }
    

    Explain:

    nope.

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