[Go] LeetCode 20. Valid Parentheses

TAKASHI NARIKAWA
1 min readJan 21, 2020

Description

Given a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid.

An input string is valid if:

  1. Open brackets must be closed by the same type of brackets.
  2. Open brackets must be closed in the correct order.

Note that an empty string is also considered valid.

Example 1:

Input: "()"
Output: true

Example 2:

Input: "()[]{}"
Output: true

Example 3:

Input: "(]"
Output: false

Example 4:

Input: "([)]"
Output: false

Example 5:

Input: "{[]}"
Output: true

Solution

/* Approach 1: Stacks */
func makeParMap() map[string]string{
parMap := make(map[string]string)
parMap["}"] = "{"
parMap["]"] = "["
parMap[")"] = "("
return parMap
}
func isValid(s string) bool {
var stack []string
for i := 0; i < len(s); i++{
char := string(s[i])
parMap := makeParMap()
if _,ok := parMap[char]; ok{
if len(stack) == 0 {
return false
}
n := len(stack)-1
pop := stack[n]
if parMap[char] != pop{
return false
}
//pop
stack = stack[:n]
continue
}
//push
stack = append(stack,char)
}
return len(stack) == 0
}

repo: https://github.com/fukubaka0825/LeetCodeInGo/blob/master/Algorithms/0020.valid_parentheses/valid_paretheses.go

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TAKASHI NARIKAWA

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