#K51757. Minimum Parentheses Balancing Operations
Minimum Parentheses Balancing Operations
Minimum Parentheses Balancing Operations
Given a string s
consisting solely of the characters '(' and ')', your task is to determine the minimum number of operations required to balance the string. A string is considered balanced if every opening parenthesis has a corresponding closing parenthesis and the parentheses are in the correct order.
The operation allowed is to fix an imbalance by effectively adding a matching parenthesis for an unmatched one. In this problem, the minimum number of operations is given by the formula:
$$\text{operations} = \max(\text{unmatched}\_\text{left}, \; \text{unmatched}\_\text{right}) $$For example:
- For
s = "())("
, the answer is 1. - For
s = ")("
, the answer is 1. - For
s = "((()))"
, the answer is 0.
Note that the input is provided via standard input and the output should be printed to standard output.
inputFormat
The input is given as a single line from standard input containing a non-empty string s
composed only of the characters '(' and ')'.
outputFormat
Output a single integer on standard output, representing the minimum number of operations required to balance the string.
## sample())(
1