LeetCode: Minimum Remove To Make Valid Parentheses Solution

1/**
2 * @param {string} s
3 * @return {string}
4 */
5var minRemoveToMakeValid = function (s) {
6 const parens = s
7 .split("")
8 .map((el, i) => [el, i])
9 .filter(el => "()".includes(el[0]))
10
11 const stack = []
12 for (const paren of parens) {
13 if (stack.length === 0) {
14 stack.push(paren)
15 continue
16 }
17 if (paren[0] === ")" && stack[stack.length - 1][0] == "(") {
18 stack.pop()
19 continue
20 }
21 stack.push(paren)
22 }
23
24 const set = new Set(stack.map(([, i]) => i))
25 return s
26 .split("")
27 .map((el, i) => (set.has(i) ? "" : el))
28 .join("")
29}

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