# Score of Parentheses in C++

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Suppose we have a balanced parentheses string S, we have to compute the score of the string based on the following rule −

• The () has score 1
• AB has score A + B, where A and B are two balanced parentheses strings.
• (A) has score 2 * A, where A is a balanced parentheses string.

So if the input is like “(()(()))”, then the output will be 6.

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• ans := 0, define a stack st
• for i in range 0 to size of string S
• if S[i] is opening parentheses, then insert -1 into stack
• otherwise
• if top of stack is -1, then delete from stack and insert 1 into stack
• otherwise
• x := 0
• while top of stack is not -1
• increase x by st, delete from st
• x := x * 2
• delete from st, and insert x
• while stack is not empty
• increase ans by top of st, and delete top element
• return ans.

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

## Example

Live Demo

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
class Solution {
public:
int scoreOfParentheses(string S) {
int ans = 0;
stack <int> st;
for(int i = 0; i < S.size(); i+=1){
if(S[i] == '('){
st.push(-1);
}else{
if(st.top() == -1){
st.pop();
st.push(1);
}else{
int x = 0;
while(st.top() != -1){
x += st.top();
st.pop();
}
x *= 2;
st.pop();
st.push(x);
}
}
}
while(!st.empty()){
ans += st.top();
st.pop();
}
return ans;
}
};
main(){
Solution ob;
cout << (ob.scoreOfParentheses("(()(()))"));
}

## Input

"(()(()))"

## Output

6
Updated on 05-May-2020 10:30:48