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Implement function check (text) which checks whether brackets within text are correctly nested. You need to consider brackets of three kinds: (), [], {}.
var expect = require('expect')
var _matches = {
'{': { invert: '}', isOpening: true },
'}': { invert: '{', isOpening: false },
'(': { invert: ')', isOpening: true },
')': { invert: '(', isOpening: false },
'[': { invert: ']', isOpening: true },
']': { invert: '[', isOpening: false }
};
function check (input) {
var bracketsStack = [];
for (var index = 0; index < input.length; index++) {
var char = input[index];
if(!_matches[char]) continue; // not a bracket
if (!_matches[char].isOpening) {
if(bracketsStack.length == 0 || bracketsStack[bracketsStack.length - 1] != _matches[char].invert)
return false; // no opening bracket for a currently closing found
else
bracketsStack.pop();
}
else if (_matches[char].isOpening)
bracketsStack.push(char);
}
return bracketsStack.length == 0;
}
expect(check("a(b)")).toBe(true);
expect(check("[{}]")).toBe(true);
expect(check("[(]")).toBe(false);
expect(check("[(])")).toBe(false);
expect(check("[}")).toBe(false);
expect(check("}{")).toBe(false);
expect(check("z([{}-()]{a})")).toBe(true);
expect(check("")).toBe(true);
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