Given a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid.
The brackets must close in the correct order, "()" and "()[]{}" are all valid but "(]" and "([)]" are not.
Use a stack, if we see '{', '[', '(' the push to stack, if we see '}', ']', ')', check if it matches the top element in the stack, if match, pop.
When matching '}', ']', ')', stack shouldn't be empty, like "{}]".
public boolean isValid(String s) {
if (s==null || s.length()<2) {
return false;
}
Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<Character>();
Map<Character, Character> parentheses = new HashMap<Character, Character>();
parentheses.put('{', '}');
parentheses.put('[', ']');
parentheses.put('(', ')');
for (int i=0; i<s.length(); i++) {
char c = s.charAt(i);
if (parentheses.containsKey(c)) {
stack.push(c);
} else if (parentheses.containsValue(c)){
//right parenthese has not yet been pushed to stack [])
if (!stack.isEmpty() && parentheses.get(stack.peek()) == c) {
stack.pop();
} else {
return false;
}
}
}
return stack.isEmpty();
}