Feature #1: Validate Price
Explore how to validate stock prices entered for buying or selling by using a state machine approach. Learn to distinguish valid and invalid price formats, including handling signs and decimals, to ensure accurate trading inputs in stock market applications. Understand the efficient time and space complexity of this validation method.
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Description
Stocks are being bought and sold every second in a trading company. It becomes common for new hires or interns with little experience to make mistakes while entering purchase or sale prices. The company has defined the fixed criteria for the purchasing and selling of stocks on its platform. In the trading section, if a price is entered with + sign, it means buy the stocks worth that amount. If a price is entered with - sign, it means sell the currently selected stock worth that amount. If no sign is entered with the price, that entry should be disregarded. Since stocks are traded in different currencies and we know that all currencies are not equal in value, prices can be fractional as well.
We’ll be provided with an input price in the form of a string. We have to validate this input so it can be either accepted or rejected. Some examples are mentioned below for ...