From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-05-08T20:55:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Bracket Packing (#78) (solution)

Gautam Dey <gdey@mac.com> writes:

> Here is my solution,

and this is mine, actually quite different from the ones I saw; it
uses gsubs to reduce step-by-step.


def unwrap(desc)
  [desc.gsub!('BB',  'B'), desc.gsub!('(B)', 'B'),
   desc.gsub!('[B]', 'B'), desc.gsub!('{B}', 'B')].nitems > 0
end

def valid?(desc)
  desc = desc.dup
  true  while unwrap desc
  desc == "B" 
end

packet = ARGV.first.to_s
if valid? packet
  puts packet
  exit 0
else
  exit 1
end


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