224. Basic Calculator

1. 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().

2. Example

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

3. Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 3 * 10$^5$
  • s consists of digits, ‘+’, ‘-’, ‘(’, ‘)’, and ' ‘.
  • s represents a valid expression.
  • ‘+’ is not used as a unary operation (i.e., “+1” and “+(2 + 3)” is invalid).
  • ‘-’ could be used as a unary operation (i.e., “-1” and “-(2 + 3)” is valid).
  • There will be no two consecutive operators in the input.
  • Every number and running calculation will fit in a signed 32-bit integer.

4. Solutions

Stack

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

class Solution {
public:
    int calculate(const string &expression) {
        int64_t result = 0, number = 0, sign = 1;
        stack<int> results, signs;

        for (char c : expression) {
            if (isdigit(c)) {
                number = number * 10 + c - '0';
            } else if (c == '+') {
                result += sign * number;
                sign = 1;
                number = 0;
            } else if (c == '-') {
                result += sign * number;
                sign = -1;
                number = 0;
            } else if (c == '(') {
                results.push(result);
                signs.push(sign);

                result = 0;
                sign = 1;
                number = 0;
            } else if (c == ')') {
                result += sign * number;
                number = 0;

                result *= signs.top();
                signs.pop();

                result += results.top();
                results.pop();
            }
        }

        return result + sign * number;
    }
};
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