I have a homework and its just bugging for the last 2 days, I've been doing exactly what the pseudo code and still haven't got it right yet. For example, if I put in "mike]" or "mike]123", my program will crash, due to the stack is empty...From what I observe, the program will crash when: - The stack is empty - And there is a close parenthesis PS: with the help of us2012, I can fix the crash problem. However, the result is not right. Instead of printing out "invalid", it outputs "valid"
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Here is the pseudo code from my professor:
def parse_parenthesis(str):
stack = create a new empty stack of OpenParen objects
for i from 0 to str.size() - 1:
if str[i] is an open parenthesis
stack.push(new OpenParen(str[i]))
else if str[i] is not a close parenthesis:
# str[i] is not a parenthesis of any kind, so ignore it
continue
# otherwise str[i] must be a close parenthesis, try to
# match it with the most recent open paren, on the top
# of the stack
else if stack is empty
return false;
else if stack.peek() is of the same type as str[i]:
# close properly
stack.pop()
else
return false;
if stack is not empty
return false;
else
return true
and here is what I have so far:
.cpp file
bool ParenMatching(const string& s, unique_ptr<string>& output)
{
unique_ptr<OpenParen> stack(new OpenParen);
bool validOpen, validClose, valid;
bool match; //haveCloseParen;
/*string unMatch = "Unmatch";
string unExpected = "Unexpected close paren";
string noError = "No Error";*/
for (size_t i = 0; i < s.length(); i++)
{
// check if its open parenthesis
validOpen = stack->IsOpenParen(s[i]);
// check if its close parenthesis
validClose = stack->IsCloseParen(s[i]);
// if there is open paren, push into the stack
if(validOpen)
stack->PushObj(s[i]);
else if(!validClose)
{
continue;
}
else if(stack->GetObj().IsEmpty())
valid = false;
else if(match = IsMatchParen(s[i], stack))
stack->PopObj();
else
valid = false;
}
if(!stack->GetObj().IsEmpty())
valid = false;
else
valid = true;
return valid;
}
bool IsMatchParen(const char c, const unique_ptr<OpenParen>& stack)
{
bool valid;
if(c == ')' && stack->PeekObj() == '(')
valid = true;
else if (c == ']' && stack->PeekObj() == '[')
valid = true;
else if (c == '}' && stack->PeekObj() == '{')
valid = true;
else if (c == '>' && stack->PeekObj() == '<')
valid = true;
else
valid = false;
return valid;
}
OpenParen.cpp
// Check if its open paren
bool OpenParen::IsOpenParen(const char c)
{
bool isOpen;
if(c == '(' || c == '[' || c == '{' || c == '<')
isOpen = true;
else
isOpen = false;
return isOpen;
}
// check if its close paren
bool OpenParen::IsCloseParen(const char c)
{
bool isClose;
if(c == ')' || c == ']' || c == '}' || c == '>')
isClose = true;
else
isClose = false;
return isClose;
}