150. Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation

1. Description

Evaluate the value of an arithmetic expression in Reverse Polish Notation.
Valid operators are +, -, *, /. Each operand may be an integer or another expression.

2. Note

  • Division between two integers should truncate toward zero.
  • The given RPN expression is always valid. That means the expression would always evaluate to a result and there won’t be any divide by zero operation.

3. Example

Example 1:
Input: [“2”, “1”, “+”, “3”, “*"]
Output: 9
Explanation: ((2 + 1) * 3) = 9

Example 2:
Input: [“4”, “13”, “5”, “/”, “+"]
Output: 6
Explanation: (4 + (13 / 5)) = 6

Example 3:
Input: [“10”, “6”, “9”, “3”, “+”, “-11”, “”, “/”, “”, “17”, “+”, “5”, “+"]
Output: 22
Explanation:
((10 * (6 / ((9 + 3) * -11))) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * (6 / (12 * -11))) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * (6 / -132)) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * 0) + 17) + 5
= (0 + 17) + 5
= 17 + 5
= 22

4. Solutions

My Accepted Solution

n = i_tokens.size()
Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n)

class Solution 
{
public:
    // int evalRPN(vector<string>& tokens)
    int evalRPN(const vector<string> &i_tokens) 
    {
        stack<string> numbers;
        for(int i = 0; i < i_tokens.size(); i++)
        {
            if(i_tokens[i] == "+" || i_tokens[i] == "-" || i_tokens[i] == "*" || i_tokens[i] == "/")
            {
                int right = stoi(numbers.top());
                numbers.pop();
                int left = stoi(numbers.top());
                numbers.pop();
                
                int calculationResult;
                if(i_tokens[i] == "+") calculationResult = left + right;
                if(i_tokens[i] == "-") calculationResult = left - right;
                if(i_tokens[i] == "*") calculationResult = left * right;
                if(i_tokens[i] == "/") calculationResult = left / right;
                
                numbers.push(to_string(calculationResult));
            }
            else
            {
                numbers.push(i_tokens[i]);
            }
        }
        
        return stoi(numbers.top());
    }
};
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