Valid Parentheses🚕

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Question

Given a string s 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.

Example 1:

Input: s = "()"
Output: true

Example 2:

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

Example 3:

Input: s = "(]"
Output: false

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 104
• s consists of parentheses only '()[]{}'.

Java Solution

Time Complexity
O(n) we are going through the whole string only once, and the insertion and deletion in a stack are constant time.

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