Find if Path Exists in Graph — LC Easy

Paul Kang
3 min readNov 8, 2022

1971. Find if Path Exists in Graph

There is a bi-directional graph with n vertices, where each vertex is labeled from 0 to n - 1 (inclusive). The edges in the graph are represented as a 2D integer array edges, where each edges[i] = [ui, vi] denotes a bi-directional edge between vertex ui and vertex vi. Every vertex pair is connected by at most one edge, and no vertex has an edge to itself.

You want to determine if there is a valid path that exists from vertex source to vertex destination.

Given edges and the integers n, source, and destination, return true if there is a valid path from source to destination, or false otherwise.

Example 1:

Input: n = 3, edges = [[0,1],[1,2],[2,0]], source = 0, destination = 2
Output: true
Explanation: There are two paths from vertex 0 to vertex 2:
- 0 → 1 → 2
- 0 → 2

Example 2:

Input: n = 6, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[3,5],[5,4],[4,3]], source = 0, destination = 5
Output: false
Explanation: There is no path from vertex 0 to vertex 5.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 2 * 105
  • 0 <= edges.length <= 2 * 105
  • edges[i].length == 2
  • 0 <= ui, vi <= n - 1
  • ui != vi
  • 0 <= source, destination <= n - 1
  • There are no duplicate edges.
  • There are no self edges.
# class DSU:
# def __init__(self, n: int):
# self.root = [i for i in range(n)]

# def findRoot(self, target: int) -> int:
# while target != self.root[target]:
# target = self.root[target]
# return target

# def union(self, val1: int, val2: int) -> None:
# root1 = self.findRoot(val1)
# root2 = self.findRoot(val2)

# if root1 != root2:
# self.root[root2] = root1
# class Solution:
# def validPath(self, n: int, edges: List[List[int]], source: int, destination: int) -> bool:
# # using disjoint sets
# init = DSU(n)

# # make union
# for vertex1, vertex2 in edges:
# init.union(vertex1, vertex2)

# src1 = init.findRoot(source)
# src2 = init.findRoot(destination)
# return True if src1 == src2 else False
# class Solution:
# def validPath(self, n: int, edges: List[List[int]], source: int, destination: int) -> bool:
# # DFS recursive
# tempDict = collections.defaultdict(list)
# for vertex1, vertex2 in edges:
# tempDict[vertex1].append(vertex2)
# tempDict[vertex2].append(vertex1)

# visited = set()

# def dfs(node, target):
# if node == target:
# return True
# if node not in visited:
# visited.add(node)
# neighbors = tempDict[node]
# for i in neighbors:
# if dfs(i, target):
# return True

# return dfs(source, destination)
class Solution:
def validPath(self, n: int, edges: List[List[int]], source: int, destination: int) -> bool:
# BFS iterative
tempDict = collections.defaultdict(list)
for vertex1, vertex2 in edges:
tempDict[vertex1].append(vertex2)
tempDict[vertex2].append(vertex1)

visited = set()

que = collections.deque([source])

while que:
node = que.popleft()
if node == destination:
return True
if node not in visited:
visited.add(node)

neighbours = tempDict[node]
for i in neighbours:
que.append(i)

return False

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