i guess there is no need of stack , we can take a variable say top;

increment top when open bracket occur "(" and decrement when close bracket
")" occurs.

keep track of first close bracket mismatch i.e when top is zero and current
bracket is ")".

if top!=0
       report min(index,top);

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:06 PM, shady <sinv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> true, we have to look at the entire string to find the first mismatch,
> and its meaning depends on how you interpret it... either way stack
> will solve it :)
>
> On Dec 20, 10:32 pm, Arun Vishwanathan <aaron.nar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > @shady: I guess first mismatch means the innermost open brace that doesnt
> > have a close brace. U cannot know that the first brace does not have a
> > closing one unless u look at the entire string.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:23 AM, shady <sinv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ( ( ) ( ( ) ( ( ) ) (  )  for this SAMM faulty index is 0, because the
> > > first bracket has itself found no matching....
> >
> > > @atul
> > > ( ( ( () ) ) for this first bracket is faulty as it couldn't find a
> > > closing bracket, , ,
> > > you can keep a stack with map as element
> > > stack< map<int, char> >
> >
> > > map<int, char> where integer is the index of the bracket, which is
> stored
> > > as char
> > > idea is similar to don's.
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:42 PM, atul anand <atul.87fri...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > >> there are multiple mismatch or only one mis-match in the input string.
> >
> > >> if the given string as below :-
> >
> > >> ( ( ( () ) ) -> for this is missing match is for 1st , 2nd or 3rd
> > >> bracket.
> >
> > >> what would be the answer for this.
> >
> > >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:10 PM, zeroByZero <shri.nit...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > >>> In a given string arrary arr[] = "((()())" or any other string return
> > >>> index for which no match is found as for this example is index 0 and
> > >>> for "()()()(()" is index 6
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