[Java] Reverse content in brackets

Dilshani Subasinghe
1 min readOct 2, 2018

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Question:

Input String may have content inside of brackets. All the content in brackets should be in reversed order.

Ex:

  • Input — “Hello(Welcome)” Outcome — “HelloomocleW”
  • Input — “Hello(Wel(co)me)” Outcome — “HelloomcoleW”

Assumptions:

  • Brackets will be in the standard way (Which means those not gonna messes up the content. All open brackets will have close brackets)

Answer:

There will be several answers which we can come up with good answers. I came up with an answer with a Recursive method call.

import java.util.Stack;

public class Solution {
static String strFinal = "";
static Integer reversedInteger ;
public static void main(String[] args) {
String result = reversedString("Hello(We(lc)ome)");
System.out.println(result);
}
static String reversedString (String input){
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(input);
for (int i=0; i<s.length(); i++) {
if(s.charAt(i) == '(') {
strFinal = strFinal + stackReverse(input,i+1);
i = reversedInteger;
}else if (s.charAt(i) == ')');
else {
strFinal = strFinal+ s.charAt(i);
}
}
return strFinal;
}

static String stackReverse (String S, Integer index){
Stack<Character> temporarystack = new Stack();
String reversedStringByStack = "";
for (int i=index; i<S.length(); i++) {
if (S.charAt(i) == '(') {
StringBuilder reversed = new StringBuilder(stackReverse(S, i+1));
for(int k =0; k<reversed.length();k++){
temporarystack.push(reversed.charAt(k));
}
i = reversedInteger;
}
else if (S.charAt(i) == ')') {
reversedInteger = i;
break;
} else {
temporarystack.push(S.charAt(i));
}
}
while (!temporarystack.isEmpty()){
reversedStringByStack = reversedStringByStack + temporarystack.pop();
}
return reversedStringByStack;
}
}

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Dilshani Subasinghe
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