2025-01-12 Daily Challenge

Today I have done leetcode's January LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.

January LeetCoding Challenge 12

Description

Check if a Parentheses String Can Be Valid

A parentheses string is a non-empty string consisting only of '(' and ')'. It is valid if any of the following conditions is true:

  • It is ().
  • It can be written as AB (A concatenated with B), where A and B are valid parentheses strings.
  • It can be written as (A), where A is a valid parentheses string.

You are given a parentheses string s and a string locked, both of length n. locked is a binary string consisting only of '0's and '1's. For each index i of locked,

  • If locked[i] is '1', you cannot change s[i].
  • But if locked[i] is '0', you can change s[i] to either '(' or ')'.

Return true if you can make s a valid parentheses string. Otherwise, return false.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "))()))", locked = "010100"
Output: true
Explanation: locked[1] == '1' and locked[3] == '1', so we cannot change s[1] or s[3].
We change s[0] and s[4] to '(' while leaving s[2] and s[5] unchanged to make s valid.

Example 2:

Input: s = "()()", locked = "0000"
Output: true
Explanation: We do not need to make any changes because s is already valid.

Example 3:

Input: s = ")", locked = "0"
Output: false
Explanation: locked permits us to change s[0]. 
Changing s[0] to either '(' or ')' will not make s valid.

 

Constraints:

  • n == s.length == locked.length
  • 1 <= n <= 105
  • s[i] is either '(' or ')'.
  • locked[i] is either '0' or '1'.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
  bool canBeValid(string s, string locked) {
    if(s.length() & 1) return false;

    stack<int> open, unlocked;
    for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
      if(locked[i] == '0') {
        unlocked.push(i);
      } else if (s[i] == '(') {
        open.push(i);
      } else if (s[i] == ')') {
        if(open.size()) {
          open.pop();
        } else if(unlocked.size()) {
          unlocked.pop();
        } else {
          return false;
        }
      }
    }

    while(open.size() && unlocked.size() && open.top() < unlocked.top()) {
      open.pop();
      unlocked.pop();
    }

    if(open.size()) return false;
    return true;
  }
};

// Accepted
// 258/258 cases passed (20 ms)
// Your runtime beats 25.13 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 16.75 % of cpp submissions (34.8 MB)