LeetCode Valid Parentheses

Description:

Given a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid.

The brackets must close in the correct order, "()" and "()[]{}" are all valid but "(]" and "([)]" are not.

Solution:

This problem can be solved by a stack structure. Every time we meet the left one, we try to push it into the stack; and when it comes to a right one, we get the top one one stack and find if they are a match, if not then return false.

import java.util.Stack;

public class Solution {
	public boolean isValid(String s) {
		Stack<Character> stack = new Stack();
		char ch, top;
		for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
			ch = s.charAt(i);
			if (ch == '(' || ch == '[' || ch == '{')
				stack.push(ch);
			else {
				if (stack.empty())
					return false;
				top = stack.pop();
				if (ch == ')' && top != '(') {
					return false;
				} else if (ch == ']' && top != '[') {
					return false;
				} else if (ch == '{' && top != '}')
					return false;
			}
		}
		if (stack.empty())
			return true;
		else
			return false;
	}
}