Test results - Codility

Tasks Details

easy

1. Nesting

Determine whether a given string of parentheses (single type) is properly nested.

Task Score

100%

Correctness

100%

Performance

100%

A string S consisting of N characters is called properly nested if:

S is empty;

S has the form "(U)" where U is a properly nested string;

S has the form "VW" where V and W are properly nested strings.

For example, string "(()(())())" is properly nested but string "())" isn't.

Write a function:

function solution(S);

that, given a string S consisting of N characters, returns 1 if string S is properly nested and 0 otherwise.

For example, given S = "(()(())())", the function should return 1 and given S = "())", the function should return 0, as explained above.

Write an efficient algorithm for the following assumptions:

N is an integer within the range [0..1,000,000];

string S is made only of the characters '(' and/or ')'.

Solution

Programming language used JavaScript

Time spent on task 9 minutes

Notes

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Task timeline

Code: 06:48:54 UTC, java, autosave

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// you can also use imports, for example:
// import java.util.*;

// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// System.out.println("this is a debug message");

class Solution {
    public int solution(String S) {
        // write your code in Java SE 8
    }
}

Code: 06:52:01 UTC, js, autosave

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    // write your code in JavaScript (Node.js 8.9.4)
}

Code: 06:52:17 UTC, js, autosave

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    
    console.log(split)
}

Code: 06:52:21 UTC, js, verify, result: Failed

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    
    console.log(split)
}

Analysis

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example1
example test

✘

RUNTIME ERROR
tested program terminated with exit code 1

0.072 s

RUNTIME ERROR, tested program terminated with exit code 1

stderr:

Invalid result type, integer expected, 'undefined' found
Perhaps you are missing a 'return'?

stdout:

[ '(', '(', ')', '(', '(', ')', ')', '(', ')', ')' ]

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example2
example test2

✘

RUNTIME ERROR
tested program terminated with exit code 1

0.072 s

RUNTIME ERROR, tested program terminated with exit code 1

stderr:

Invalid result type, integer expected, 'undefined' found
Perhaps you are missing a 'return'?

stdout:

[ '(', ')', ')' ]

Code: 06:53:25 UTC, js, autosave

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    
    for 
}

Code: 06:53:35 UTC, js, verify, result: Failed

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    
    for (let i of split) {
        console.log(i)
    }
}

Analysis

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example1
example test

✘

RUNTIME ERROR
tested program terminated with exit code 1

0.072 s

RUNTIME ERROR, tested program terminated with exit code 1

stderr:

Invalid result type, integer expected, 'undefined' found
Perhaps you are missing a 'return'?

stdout:

(
(
)
(
(
)
)
(
)
)

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example2
example test2

✘

RUNTIME ERROR
tested program terminated with exit code 1

0.072 s

RUNTIME ERROR, tested program terminated with exit code 1

stderr:

Invalid result type, integer expected, 'undefined' found
Perhaps you are missing a 'return'?

stdout:

(
)
)

Code: 06:53:55 UTC, js, autosave

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    const stack = []
    for (let i of split) {
        if (i === '(') {
            
        }
    }
}

Code: 06:54:12 UTC, js, autosave

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    const stack = []
    for (let i of split) {
        if (i === '(') {
            stack.push(true)
        } else {
            if (stack.length === 0)
        }
    }
}

Code: 06:54:23 UTC, js, autosave

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    const stack = []
    for (let i of split) {
        if (i === '(') {
            stack.push(true)
        } else {
            if (stack.length === 0) {
                return 0
            } else {
                
            }
        }
    }
}

Code: 06:56:35 UTC, js, autosave

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    const stack = []
    for (let i of split) {
        if (i === '(') {
            stack.push(true)
        } else {
            if (stack.length === 0) {
                return 0
            } else {
                stack.p
            }
        }
    }
}

Code: 06:56:45 UTC, js, verify, result: Passed

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    const stack = []
    for (let i of split) {
        if (i === '(') {
            stack.push(true)
        } else {
            if (stack.length === 0) {
                return 0
            } else {
                stack.pop()
            }
        }
    }
    
    return stack.length === 0 ? 1 : 0
}

Analysis

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example1
example test

✔

0.068 s

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example2
example test2

✔

0.068 s

Code: 06:56:52 UTC, js, verify, result: Passed

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    const stack = []
    for (let i of split) {
        if (i === '(') {
            stack.push(true)
        } else {
            if (stack.length === 0) {
                return 0
            } else {
                stack.pop()
            }
        }
    }
    
    return stack.length === 0 ? 1 : 0
}

Analysis

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example1
example test

✔

0.072 s

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example2
example test2

✔

0.068 s

Code: 06:56:55 UTC, js, final, score: 100

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// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// console.log('this is a debug message');

function solution(S) {
    const split = S.split('')
    const stack = []
    for (let i of split) {
        if (i === '(') {
            stack.push(true)
        } else {
            if (stack.length === 0) {
                return 0
            } else {
                stack.pop()
            }
        }
    }
    
    return stack.length === 0 ? 1 : 0
}

Analysis summary

The solution obtained perfect score.

Analysis

Detected time complexity:

O(N)

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example1
example test

✔

0.072 s

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example2
example test2

✔

0.072 s

expand all Correctness tests

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negative_match
invalid structure, but the number of parentheses matches

✔

0.072 s

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empty
empty string

✔

0.072 s

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simple_grouped
simple grouped positive and negative test, length=22

✔

0.072 s

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small_random

✔

0.072 s

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large1
simple large positive and negative test, 10K or 10K+1 ('s followed by 10K )'s

✔

0.076 s

0.072 s

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large_full_ternary_tree
tree of the form T=(TTT) and depth 11, length=177K+

✔

0.084 s

0.072 s

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multiple_full_binary_trees
sequence of full trees of the form T=(TT), depths [1..10..1], with/without unmatched ')' at the end, length=49K+

✔

0.080 s

0.072 s

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broad_tree_with_deep_paths
string of the form (TTT...T) of 300 T's, each T being '(((...)))' nested 200-fold, length=1 million

✔

0.112 s

0.072 s