0224. Basic Calculator

https://leetcode.com/problems/basic-calculator

Description

Given a string s representing a valid expression, implement a basic calculator to evaluate it, and return the result of the evaluation.

Note: You are not allowed to use any built-in function which evaluates strings as mathematical expressions, such as eval().

Example 1:

**Input:** s = "1 + 1"
**Output:** 2

Example 2:

**Input:** s = " 2-1 + 2 "
**Output:** 3

Example 3:

**Input:** s = "(1+(4+5+2)-3)+(6+8)"
**Output:** 23

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 3 * 105

  • s consists of digits, '+', '-', '(', ')', and ' '.

  • s represents a valid expression.

  • '+' is not used as a unary operation.

  • '-' could be used as a unary operation and in this case, it will not be used directly after a +ve or -ve signs (will be inside parentheses).

  • There will be no two consecutive operators in the input.

  • Every number and running calculation will fit in a signed 32-bit integer.

ac1: Deque + multiple passes

slow

ac2: stack

ac3: 2 stack

more intuitive, generalize to complex problem like #227 #772

ac4: stack, get rid of parenthesis

sign = stack.peek() * (c == '+' ? 1: -1); is to simulate the process of removing parenthesis.

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