Java balanced expressions check {[()]}

Question

I am trying to create a program that takes a string as an argument into its constructor. I need a method that checks whether the string is a balanced parenthesized expressio

Answer 1

Using switch-case for better readability and handling of other scenarios:

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Stack;

public class JavaStack
{
    private static final Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        while (sc.hasNext()) {
            String input = sc.next();
            System.out.println(isStringBalanced(input));
        }
        scanner.close();

    }

    private static boolean isStringBalanced(String testString)
    {
        Stack stack = new Stack();
        for (char c : testString.toCharArray()) {
            switch (c) {
                case '[':
                case '(':
                case '{':
                    stack.push(c);
                    break;
                case ']':
                    if (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != '[') {
                        return false;
                    }
                    break;
                case ')':
                    if (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != '(') {
                        return false;
                    }
                    break;
                case '}':
                    if (stack.isEmpty() || stack.pop() != '{') {
                        return false;
                    }
                    break;
                default:
                    break;
            }
        }
        // stack has to be empty, if not, the balance was wrong
        return stack.empty();
    }
}