#34: All Manner of Brackets

Tagged as challenge

Written on 2018-02-06

We all know the problem of checking/counting parentheses pairs. This time, given a list of open and close characters which must match each other, check if the expression is valid. For example, consider the following pairs:

(defparameter *open-close-pairs*
  '((#\( . #\))
    (#\[ . #\])
    (#\{ . #\})
    (#\< . #\>)))

Write a function validate which takes a string like "({<>[()]}[])" and a table of open-close pairs and return a Boolean indicating the validity of the string.

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