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C# Program To Check For Balanced Brackets In An Expression (Well-Formedness) Using Stack

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Given an expression string exp, write a program to examine whether the pairs and the orders of “{“, “}”, “(“, “)”, “[“, “]” are correct in exp.

Example

Input: exp = “[()]{}{[()()]()}” 
Output: Balanced

Input: exp = “[(])” 
Output: Not Balanced 

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Algorithm: 

  • Declare a character stack S.
  • Now traverse the expression string exp. 
    1. If the current character is a starting bracket (‘(‘ or ‘{‘ or ‘[‘) then push it to stack.
    2. If the current character is a closing bracket (‘)’ or ‘}’ or ‘]’) then pop from stack and if the popped character is the matching starting bracket then fine else brackets are not balanced.
  • After complete traversal, if there is some starting bracket left in stack then “not balanced”

Below image is a dry run of the above approach:

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

C#




// C# program for checking
// balanced Brackets
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
  
public class BalancedBrackets {
    public class stack {
        public int top = -1;
        public char[] items = new char[100];
  
        public void push(char x)
        {
            if (top == 99) 
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Stack full");
            }
            else {
                items[++top] = x;
            }
        }
  
        char pop()
        {
            if (top == -1) 
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Underflow error");
                return '�';
            }
            else 
            {
                char element = items[top];
                top--;
                return element;
            }
        }
  
        Boolean isEmpty()
        {
            return (top == -1) ? true : false;
        }
    }
  
    // Returns true if character1 and character2
    // are matching left and right brackets */
    static Boolean isMatchingPair(char character1,
                                  char character2)
    {
        if (character1 == '(' && character2 == ')')
            return true;
        else if (character1 == '{' && character2 == '}')
            return true;
        else if (character1 == '[' && character2 == ']')
            return true;
        else
            return false;
    }
  
    // Return true if expression has balanced
    // Brackets
    static Boolean areBracketsBalanced(char[] exp)
    {
        // Declare an empty character stack */
        Stack<char> st = new Stack<char>();
  
        // Traverse the given expression to
        //   check matching brackets
        for (int i = 0; i < exp.Length; i++) 
        {
            // If the exp[i] is a starting
            // bracket then push it
            if (exp[i] == '{' || exp[i] == '('
                || exp[i] == '[')
                st.Push(exp[i]);
  
            //  If exp[i] is an ending bracket
            //  then pop from stack and check if the
            //   popped bracket is a matching pair
            if (exp[i] == '}' || exp[i] == ')'
                || exp[i] == ']') {
  
                // If we see an ending bracket without
                //   a pair then return false
                if (st.Count == 0) 
                {
                    return false;
                }
  
                // Pop the top element from stack, if
                // it is not a pair brackets of
                // character then there is a mismatch. This
                // happens for expressions like {(})
                else if (!isMatchingPair(st.Pop(),
                                         exp[i])) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
  
        // If there is something left in expression
        // then there is a starting bracket without
        // a closing bracket
  
        if (st.Count == 0)
            return true; // balanced
        else 
        
            // not balanced
            return false;
        }
    }
  
    // Driver code
    public static void Main(String[] args)
    {
        char[] exp = { '{', '(', ')', '}', '[', ']' };
  
        // Function call
        if (areBracketsBalanced(exp))
            Console.WriteLine("Balanced ");
        else
            Console.WriteLine("Not Balanced ");
    }
}
  
// This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar


Output

Balanced

Time Complexity: O(n) 
Auxiliary Space: O(n) for stack. 

Please refer complete article on Check for Balanced Brackets in an expression (well-formedness) using Stack for more details!



Last Updated : 15 Dec, 2021
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