RosettaCodeData/Task/Balanced-brackets/ALGOL-68/balanced-brackets.alg

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# generates a string of random opening and closing brackets. The number of #
# each type of brackets is speccified in length #
PROC get brackets = ( INT length ) STRING:
BEGIN
INT result length = length * 2;
[ 1 : result length ]CHAR result;
# initialise the brackets to all open brackets #
FOR char pos TO result length DO result[ char pos ] := "[" OD;
# set half of the brackets to close brackets #
INT close count := 0;
WHILE close count < length
DO
INT random pos = 1 + ENTIER ( next random * result length );
IF result[ random pos ] = "["
THEN
close count +:= 1;
result[ random pos ] := "]"
FI
OD;
result
END # get brackets # ;
# returns TRUE if the brackets string contains a correctly nested sequence #
# of brackets, FALSE otherwise #
PROC check brackets = ( STRING brackets ) BOOL:
BEGIN
INT depth := 0;
FOR char pos FROM LWB brackets TO UPB brackets
WHILE
IF brackets[ char pos ] = "["
THEN
depth +:= 1
ELSE
depth -:= 1
FI;
depth >= 0
DO
SKIP
OD;
# depth will be 0 if we reached the end of the string and it was #
# correct, non-0 otherwise #
depth = 0
END # check brackets # ;
# procedure to test check brackets #
PROC test check brackets = ( STRING brackets ) VOID:
print( ( ( brackets
+ ": "
+ IF check brackets( brackets ) THEN "ok" ELSE "not ok" FI
)
, newline
)
) ;
# test the bracket generation and checking PROCs #
test check brackets( get brackets( 0 ) );
FOR length TO 12
DO
TO 2
DO
test check brackets( get brackets( length ) )
OD
OD