Java balanced expressions check {[()]}

Question

I am trying to create a program that takes a string as an argument into its constructor. I need a method that checks whether the string is a balanced parenthesized expressio

Answer 1

The pseudo code equivalent java implementation of the algorithm is java is as follows.

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Stack;

/**
 * @author Yogen Rai
 */

public class BalancedBraces
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(isBalanced("{{}}") ? "YES" : "NO"); // YES
        System.out.println(isBalanced("{{}(") ? "YES" : "NO"); // NO 
        System.out.println(isBalanced("{()}") ? "YES" : "NO"); // YES 
        System.out.println(isBalanced("}{{}}") ? "YES" : "NO"); // NO
    }

    public static boolean isBalanced(String brackets) {
        // set matching pairs
        Map<Character, Character> braces = new HashMap<>();
        braces.put('(', ')');
        braces.put('[',']');
        braces.put('{','}');

        // if length of string is odd, then it is not balanced
        if (brackets.length() % 2 != 0) {
            return false;
        }

        // travel half until openings are found and compare with
        // remaining if the closings matches
        Stack<Character> halfBraces = new Stack();
        for(char ch: brackets.toCharArray()) {
            if (braces.containsKey(ch)) {
                halfBraces.push(braces.get(ch));
            }
            // if stack is empty or if closing bracket is not equal to top of stack,
            // then braces are not balanced
            else if(halfBraces.isEmpty() || ch != halfBraces.pop()) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return halfBraces.isEmpty();
    }
}

Answer 2

Please try this I checked it. It works correctly

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Stack;
public class CloseBrackets {
    private static Map<Character, Character> leftChar = new HashMap<>();
    private static Map<Character, Character> rightChar = new HashMap<>();

    static {
        leftChar.put('(', '(');
        rightChar.put(')', '(');
        leftChar.put('[', '[');
        rightChar.put(']', '[');
        leftChar.put('{', '{');
        rightChar.put('}', '{');
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String st = bf.readLine();
        System.out.println(isBalanced(st));
    }

    public static boolean isBalanced(String str) {

        boolean result = false;
        if (str.length() < 2)
            return false;
        Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<>();
        /* For Example I gave input 
         * str = "{()[]}" 
         */

        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {

            char ch = str.charAt(i);
            if (!rightChar.containsKey(ch) && !leftChar.containsKey(ch)) {
                continue;
            }
            // Left bracket only add to stack. Other wise it will goes to else case 
            // For both above input how value added in stack 
            // "{(" after close bracket go to else case
            if (leftChar.containsKey(ch)) {
                stack.push(ch);
            } else {
                if (!stack.isEmpty()) {
                    // For both input how it performs
                    // 3rd character is close bracket so it will pop . pop value is "(" and map value for ")" key will "(" . So both are same . 
                    // it will return true. 
                    // now stack will contain only "{" , and travers to next up to end.
                    if (stack.pop() == rightChar.get(ch).charValue() || stack.isEmpty()) {
                        result = true;
                    } else {
                        return false;
                    }
                } else {
                    return false;
                }
            }

        }
        if (!stack.isEmpty())
            return result = false;
        return result;
    }
}

Answer 3

Using node reference we can check easily

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;



public class CloseBracketsBalance {
    private static final Map<String, String> closeBracket= new HashMap<>();
    private static final List<String> allBrac = new ArrayList<>();

    static {
        allBrac.add("[");
        allBrac.add("]");
        allBrac.add("{");
        allBrac.add("}");
        allBrac.add("(");
        allBrac.add(")");
        closeBracket.put("]", "[");
        closeBracket.put("}", "{");
        closeBracket.put(")", "(");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(checkSheetIsbalance("[{}({[]{}(dsfd)})]")); // return true
        System.out.println(checkSheetIsbalance("[{}({[]{}(dsfd}))]")); // return false
    }

    public static boolean checkSheetIsbalance(String c) {
        char[] charArr = c.toCharArray();
        Node node = null;
        for(int i=0,j=charArr.length;i<j;i++) {
            String ch = charArr[i]+"";
            if(!allBrac.contains(ch)) {
                continue;
            }

            if(closeBracket.containsKey(ch)) {
                // node close bracket               
                if(node == null) {
                    return false;
                }
                if(!(node.nodeElement).equals(closeBracket.get(ch))) {
                    return false;
                }
                node = node.parent; 
            } else {
                //make node for open bracket                
                 node = new Node(ch, node);
            }
        }       

        if(node != null) {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }
}


class Node {
    public String nodeElement;
    public Node parent;
    public Node(String el, Node p) {
        this.nodeElement = el;
        this.parent = p;
    }
}

Answer 4

How about this one, it uses both concept of stack plus counter checks:

import java.util.*;
class Solution{

public static void main(String []argh)
{
   Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
   while (sc.hasNext()) {
      String input=sc.next();
      Stack<Character> stk = new Stack<Character>();
      char[] chr = input.toCharArray();
      int ctrl = 0, ctrr = 0;
      if(input.length()==0){
          System.out.println("true");
      }
      for(int i=0; i<input.length(); i++){
          if(chr[i]=='{'||chr[i]=='('||chr[i]=='['){
              ctrl++;
              stk.push(chr[i]);
              //System.out.println(stk);
          }
      }
      for(int i=0; i<input.length(); i++){
          if(chr[i]=='}'||chr[i]==')'||chr[i]==']'){
              ctrr++;
              if(!stk.isEmpty())
                  stk.pop();
              //System.out.println(stk);
          }
      }
      //System.out.println(stk);
      if(stk.isEmpty()&&ctrl==ctrr)
        System.out.println("true");
      else
        System.out.println("false");
      }
   }
}

Answer 5

This code works for all cases include other chars not only parentheses ex:
Please enter input

{ibrahim[k]}
true

()[]{}[][]
true saddsd] false

public class Solution {

    private static Map<Character, Character> parenthesesMapLeft = new HashMap<>();
    private static Map<Character, Character> parenthesesMapRight = new HashMap<>();

    static {
        parenthesesMapLeft.put('(', '(');
        parenthesesMapRight.put(')', '(');
        parenthesesMapLeft.put('[', '[');
        parenthesesMapRight.put(']', '[');
        parenthesesMapLeft.put('{', '{');
        parenthesesMapRight.put('}', '{');
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Please enter input");
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

        String str = scanner.nextLine();

        System.out.println(isBalanced(str));
    }

    public static boolean isBalanced(String str) {

        boolean result = false;
        if (str.length() < 2)
            return false;
        Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {

            char ch = str.charAt(i);
            if (!parenthesesMapRight.containsKey(ch) && !parenthesesMapLeft.containsKey(ch)) {
                continue;
            }
            if (parenthesesMapLeft.containsKey(ch)) {
                stack.push(ch);
            } else {
                if (!stack.isEmpty() && stack.pop() == parenthesesMapRight.get(ch).charValue()) {
                    result = true;
                } else {
                    return false;
                }
            }

        }
        if (!stack.isEmpty())
            return result = false;
        return result;
    }
}

Answer 6

Do you mind, if I will add my freaky-style solution based on JavaScript?

It's an ad-hoc stuff, not for production, but for the interviews or something like that. Or just for fun.

The code:

function reduceStr (str) {
  const newStr = str.replace('()', '').replace('{}', '').replace('[]', '')
  if (newStr !== str) return reduceStr(newStr)
  return newStr
}

function verifyNesting (str) {
  return reduceStr(str).length === 0
}

Checks:

console.log(verifyNesting('[{{[(){}]}}[]{}{{(())}}]')) //correct
console.log(verifyNesting('[{{[(){}]}}[]{}{({())}}]')) //incorrect

Explanation:

It will recursively remove closes pairs "()", "[]" and "{}":

'[{{[(){}]}}[]{}{{(())}}]'
'[{{}}[]{}{{(())}}]'
'[{}{}{{()}}]'
'[{}{{}}]'
'[{{}}]'
'[{}]'
'' 

If at the end string's length will be empty - it's true, if not - it's false.

P.S. Few answers

• Why not for production?

Because it's slow, and don't care about the possibility of some other characters between pairs.

• Why JS? We love Java

Because I'm a frontend developer but met the same task, so perhaps it can be useful for somebody. And JS is also JVM lang =)

• But why...

Because all JS developers are crazy, that's why.