OLAP Vision Interview Question


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Interview Type: Phone Interview




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If there are going to be multiple queries against the same string, it would be wiser to first calculate all the matching pairs in a hash, and then have amortized O(1) time complexity for a query.

On the other hand, if there are going to be multiple queries against different strings, then you can use the approach below.

Potential things to consider:
1. How should the code behave when the input index is not an opening bracket? (raise exception vs return some sentinel value)
2. How would you handle more types of bracket pairs (, [, {, <, etc.?
3. Can you do it without a stack for one-time queries? (yes)

from collections import deque

def main():
    test("[ytu[78]][12]", 0) # should be 8
    test("[ytu[78]][12]", 4) # should be 7
    test("[ytu[78]][12]", 9) # should be 12
    test("[ytu[78]][12]", 1) # No matching bracket


def test(s, i):
    matching_index = get_index_of_matching_bracket(s, i)
    print(s + ", " + str(i) + ": " + str(matching_index))

def get_index_of_matching_bracket(s, i):

    if s[i] != '[':
        return -1

    d = deque()

    for k in range(i, len(s)):
        if s[k] == ']':
            d.popleft()
        elif s[k] == '[':
            d.append(s[i])

        if not d:
            return k

    return -1

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

- havanagrawal November 15, 2017 | Flag Reply


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