Given some assortment of brackets, you must find the largest substring that is a valid matching bracket pattern

  • A bracket match is an opening and closing version of the same kind of bracket beside each other ()
  • If a bracket matches then outer brackets can also match (())
  • The valid brackets are ()[]{}

For example for the input {([])()[(])}()] the answer would be ([])() as that is the largest substring that has all matches

You must accept the input as a command line argument (entered when your app is ran) and print out the result

(It will be called like node main.js [(]() or however else to run apps in your language)

You can use the solution tester in this post to test you followed the correct format https://programming.dev/post/1805174

Any programming language may be used. 3 points will be given if you pass all the test cases with 1 bonus point going to whoevers performs the quickest and 1 for whoever can get the least amount of characters

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  • lavafroth
    1·
    1 year ago

    Rust solution:

    use std::cmp::min;
use std::ops::Range;

fn completer(bracket: char) -> char {
    match bracket {
        ')' => '(',
        '}' => '{',
        ']' => '[',
        _ => unreachable!(),
    }
}

pub struct Char {
    index: usize,
    value: char,
}

fn main() {
    let input: String = std::env::args().nth(1).unwrap();
    let mut longest = Range::default();
    {
        let mut current = Range::default();
        let mut stack: Vec = Vec::with_capacity(input.len() << 1);
        let mut streak = false;
        for (i, c) in input.chars().enumerate() {
            match c {
                ']' | '}' | ')' => {
                    let matched = stack
                        .last()
                        .map(|other| completer(c) == other.value)
                        .unwrap_or_default();
                    if matched {
                        current.start = if streak {
                            min(current.start, stack.pop().unwrap().index)
                        } else {
                            stack.pop().unwrap().index
                        };
                        current.end = i;
                        streak = true;
                    } else {
                        stack.clear();
                        if longest.len() < current.len() {
                            longest = current;
                        }
                        current = Range {
                            start: i + 1,
                            end: i + 1,
                        };
                        streak = false;
                    }
                }
                '[' | '{' | '(' => {
                    stack.push(Char { index: i, value: c });
                }
                _ => {}
            };
        }

        if streak {
            longest = current;
        }
    }

    if longest.start != longest.end {
        longest.end += 1;
    }
    println!("{}", &input[longest]);
}

    Also available at: https://pastebin.com/EJsLYPqQ

      • lavafroth
        1·
        1 year ago

        lol forgot the cases where there might be multiple nested braces!