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 expression. It needs to handle ( { [ ] } ) each open needs to balance with its corresponding closing bracket. For example a user could input [({})] which would be balanced and }{ would be unbalanced. This doesn't need to handle letters or numbers. I need to use a stack to do this.

I was given this pseudocode but can not figure how to implement it in java. Any advice would be awesome.

Update- sorry forgot to post what i had so far. Its all messed up because at first i was trying to use char and then i tried an array.. im not exactly sure where to go.

import java.util.*;

public class Expression
{
  Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
  Stack<Integer> stack = new Stack<Integer>();



  public boolean check()
  {
    System.out.println("Please enter your expression.");
    String newExp = in.next();
    String[] exp = new String[newExp];
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    { 


      char ch = exp.charAt(i);
      if (ch == '(' || ch == '[' || ch == '{')
        stack.push(i);
      else if (ch == ')'|| ch == ']' || ch == '}')
      {
        //nothing to match with
        if(stack.isEmpty())
        {  
          return false;
        }
        else if(stack.pop() != ch)
        { 
          return false;
        } 

      }            
    }
    if (stack.isEmpty())
    {
      return true;
    }
    else
    {
      return false;
    }
  }


}

Answer 1

package com.me.hr;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Stack;

public class Paranthesis {

    public static void main(String[] argh) {

        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

        while (sc.hasNext()) {
            String input = sc.next();
            Paranthesis obj = new Paranthesis();
            System.out.println(obj.isEven(input));
        } // Complete the code }
        sc.close();
    }

    boolean isEven(String token) {
        HashMap<Character, Character> paranthesisMap = new HashMap<Character, Character>();
        paranthesisMap.put('{', '}');
        paranthesisMap.put('[', ']');
        paranthesisMap.put('(', ')');

        // List<Character> closingThesis = Arrays.asList('}',']',')');
        char[] chars = token.toCharArray();
        Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<Character>();
        for (char ch : chars) {
            boolean push = true;
            // Not Allow closing prthese first
            if (stack.isEmpty() && paranthesisMap.values().contains(ch))
                return false;

            // Pop Out Matching closing prthese
            if (!stack.isEmpty() && paranthesisMap.values().contains(ch)) {
                char peek = stack.peek();
                if (paranthesisMap.get(peek).equals(ch)) {
                    stack.pop();
                    push = false;
                } else {
                    // Otherwise not matching
                    return false;
                }
            }
            if (push)
                stack.push(ch);
        }

        if (stack.isEmpty())
            return true;

        return false;
    }

}

Answer 2

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 3

import java.util.Stack;

        public class StackParenthesisImplementation {
            public static void main(String[] args) {
                String Parenthesis = "[({})]";
                char[] charParenthesis  = Parenthesis.toCharArray();
                boolean evalParanthesisValue = evalParanthesis(charParenthesis);
                if(evalParanthesisValue == true)
                    System.out.println("Brackets are good");
                else
                    System.out.println("Brackets are not good");
            }
            static boolean evalParanthesis(char[] brackets)
            {       
                boolean IsBracesOk = false;
                boolean PairCount = false;
                Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<Character>();
                for(char brace : brackets)
                {                       
                    if(brace == '(' || brace == '{' || brace == '['){
                        stack.push(brace);  
                        PairCount = false;
                    }
                    else if(!stack.isEmpty())
                    {
                        if(brace == ')' || brace == '}' || brace == ']')
                        {
                            char CharPop = stack.pop();
                            if((brace == ')' && CharPop == '('))
                            {
                                IsBracesOk = true; PairCount = true;
                            }
                            else if((brace == '}') && (CharPop == '{'))
                            {
                                IsBracesOk = true; PairCount = true;
                            }
                            else if((brace == ']') && (CharPop == '['))
                            {
                                IsBracesOk = true; PairCount = true;
                            }
                            else 
                            {
                                IsBracesOk = false;
                                PairCount = false;
                                break;
                            }
                        }   
                    }
                }   
                if(PairCount == false)
                return IsBracesOk = false;
                else
                    return IsBracesOk = true;
            }
        }

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

This is my own implementation. I tried to make it the shortest an clearest way possible:

public static boolean isBraceBalanced(String braces) {
    Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<Character>();

    for(char c : braces.toCharArray()) {
        if(c == '(' || c == '[' || c == '{') {
            stack.push(c);
        } else if((c == ')' && (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != '(')) ||
                  (c == ']' && (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != '[')) ||
                  (c == '}' && (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != '{'))) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    return stack.isEmpty();
}

Answer 6

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("(){}[]<>"));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("({})[]<>"));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("({[]})<>"));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("({[<>]})"));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("({})[<>]"));


    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("({[}])[<>]"));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("([{})]"));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("[({}])"));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("[(<{>})]"));

    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("["));
    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("]"));

    System.out.println("is balanced : "+isBalanced("asdlsa"));
}

private static boolean isBalanced(String brackets){
    char[] bracketsArray = brackets.toCharArray();
    Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<Character>();
    Map<Character, Character> openingClosingMap = initOpeningClosingMap();

    for (char bracket : bracketsArray) {
        if(openingClosingMap.keySet().contains(bracket)){ 
            stack.push(bracket);
        }else if(openingClosingMap.values().contains(bracket)){
            if(stack.isEmpty() || openingClosingMap.get(stack.pop())!=bracket){
                return false;
            }
        }else{
            System.out.println("Only  < > ( ) { } [ ] brackets  are allowed .");
            return false;
        }
    }
    return stack.isEmpty();
}

private static Map<Character, Character> initOpeningClosingMap() {
    Map<Character, Character> openingClosingMap = new HashMap<Character, Character>();
    openingClosingMap.put(Character.valueOf('('), Character.valueOf(')'));
    openingClosingMap.put(Character.valueOf('{'), Character.valueOf('}'));
    openingClosingMap.put(Character.valueOf('['), Character.valueOf(']'));
    openingClosingMap.put(Character.valueOf('<'), Character.valueOf('>'));
    return openingClosingMap;
}

Simplifying and making readable. Using One Map only and minimum conditions to get desired result.