HackerRank Solutions – Stacks – Balanced Brackets – Java Solution
All credits to Rodney Shaghoulian for this simple solution for the HackerRank challenge -Stacks – Balanced Brackets. This solution is written in Java.
// Author: Rodney Shaghoulian // Github: github.com/RodneyShag // ArrayDeque is "likely to be faster than Stack when used as a stack" - Java documentation // Time Complexity: O(n) // Space Complexity: O(n) /* Create HashMap to match opening brackets with closing brackets */ static String isBalanced(String expression) { HashMap<Character, Character> map = new HashMap<>(); map.put('(', ')'); map.put('[', ']'); map.put('{', '}'); return isBalanced(expression, map) ? "YES" : "NO"; } private static boolean isBalanced(String expression, HashMap<Character, Character> map) { if ((expression.length() % 2) != 0) { return false; // odd length Strings are not balanced } ArrayDeque<Character> deque = new ArrayDeque<>(); // use deque as a stack for (int i = 0; i < expression.length(); i++) { Character ch = expression.charAt(i); if (map.containsKey(ch)) { deque.push(ch); } else if (deque.isEmpty() || ch != map.get(deque.pop())) { return false; } } return deque.isEmpty(); }