/* * 301. Remove Invalid Parentheses * 2016-7-3 by Mingyang *https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/34875/easy-short-concise-and-fast-java-dfs-3-ms-solution */ public ListremoveInvalidParentheses(String s) { List ans = new ArrayList<>(); remove(s, ans, 0, 0, new char[]{'(', ')'}); return ans; } public void remove(String s, List ans, int last_i, int last_j, char[] par) { for (int stack = 0, i = last_i; i < s.length(); ++i) { if (s.charAt(i) == par[0]) stack++; if (s.charAt(i) == par[1]) stack--; if (stack >= 0) continue; for (int j = last_j; j <= i; ++j) if (s.charAt(j) == par[1] && (j == last_j || s.charAt(j - 1) != par[1])) remove(s.substring(0, j) + s.substring(j + 1, s.length()), ans, i, j, par); return; } String reversed = new StringBuilder(s).reverse().toString(); if (par[0] == '(') // finished left to right remove(reversed, ans, 0, 0, new char[]{')', '('}); else // finished right to left ans.add(reversed); }