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Brackets, braces, parentheses, and other such creatures

submitted by nrstott 5 months, 10 days ago

davesquared.blogspot.com — An interesting story about a common task in text-manipulation done with TDD. The problem is stated as such: This aim of this challenge was to determine whether any given string has a legal bracket structure. Basically, make sure all the '(', '[', '{', and '<' have matching ')', ']', '}' and '>'. We also need to take nesting into account, so that "({)}" is incorrect, and "({}<{}>)" will pass.

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The linked to post is an effort to work through a problem posed on the dev102.com site (kicked here: http://www.dotnetkicks.com/architecture/A_Programming_Job_Interview_Challenge_13_Brackets). Probably a good idea to look at that first (especially if you're keen to work through the problem yourself).

posted by david 5 months, 10 days ago