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Problem: Valid Parentheses

Explore how to use a stack to validate parentheses in a string. Learn to push opening brackets and match closing ones to ensure proper nesting and pairing. This lesson guides you through implementing this common problem using stack operations in C++ and analyzing its time and space complexity.

Statement

Given a string s consisting only of the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[', and ']', determine whether the string represents a valid sequence of brackets.

A string is considered valid if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

  • Every opening bracket is closed by a bracket of the same type.

  • Brackets are closed in the correct (properly nested) order.

  • Every closing bracket has a matching opening bracket of the same type.

Return TRUE if the string is valid, and FALSE otherwise.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s.length 104\leq 10^4 ...