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ANARC09A - Seinfeld |
I’m out of stories. For years I’ve been writing stories, some rather silly, just to make simple problems look difficult and complex problems look easy. But, alas, not for this one.
You’re given a non empty string made in its entirety from opening and closing braces. Your task is to find the minimum number of “operations” needed to make the string stable. The definition for being stable is as follows:
- An empty string is stable.
- If S is stable, then {S} is also stable.
- If S and T are both stable, then ST (the concatenation of the two) is also stable.
All of these strings are stable: {}, {}{}, and {{}{}}; But none of these: }{, {{}{, nor {}{.
The only operation allowed on the string is to replace an opening brace with a closing brace, or vice-versa.
Input
Your program will be tested on one or more data sets. Each data set is described on a single line. The line is a non-empty string of opening and closing braces and nothing else. No string has more than 2000 braces. All sequences are of even length.
The last line of the input is made of one or more ’-’ (minus signs.)
Output
For each test case, print the following line:
k. N
Where k is the test case number (starting at one,) and N is the minimum number of operations needed to convert the given string into a balanced one.
Example
Input: }{
{}{}{}
{{{}
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Output: 1. 2
2. 0
3. 1
Added by: | Mohammad Kotb |
Date: | 2009-11-28 |
Time limit: | 3.236s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 BASH JS-RHINO |
Resource: | http://www.icpc-anarc.org |
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2015-09-24 20:55:30 topke
@arjun well you can do it with just one variable storing information or you can use stack it does not matter since you only store one type of brackets you just need size :D |
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2015-09-14 20:33:36
easy one stack implementation :) take care of output format costed me 1 WA |
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2015-07-30 16:44:45 arjun
Hey there is no need to store the stack. Did in O(n). |
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2015-07-16 15:28:23
output format!!!! |
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2015-07-03 01:06:28 Ankur Arora
very easy |
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2015-06-23 15:22:48 Alex-ander007
should there be a space between . and answer or not? |
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2015-06-22 19:30:50 [Mayank Pratap]
Stack Implementation....Loved this problem ... :) |
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2015-06-18 11:29:30 Liquid_Science
Got wa because of the space beteween "." and no of operations , well played - _- |
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2015-06-16 14:04:42 Aman Agarwal
take care of the output format..costed me 1 wa..rest is very easy..stack implementation |
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2015-06-15 06:49:35 Rishabh Joshi
Typo in output format cost me 2 wa.. be careful. |