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Vertical Order Traversal of a Binary Tree

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Problem statement

You are given a binary tree serialized as a level-order array levelOrder. Each non-null token is a signed decimal integer, and the token "null" denotes a missing child.

Place the root at row 0, column 0. For a node at row r, column c:

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Example 1

levelOrder = ["3","9","20","null","null","15","7"]return = [[9],[3,15],[20],[7]]

The columns from left to right are -1, 0, 1, and 2.

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