DIY: Decoding a String
Solve the interview question "Decoding a String" in this lesson.
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Problem statement
Given an encoded string, return its decoded string.
The input string is encoded such that k[pattern]
should be decoded to pattern
repeatedly for k
times. Note that pattern
itself may include nested repetition encoding. For example, 3[a2[b]]
represents abbabbabb
.
k
is guaranteed to be a positive integer. Furthermore, the string does not contain any digits, and any digit in theencoded_string
only representsk
.
Input
The input will be in the form of a string. The following is an example input:
s = "abc3[cd]xyz"
Output
The output will also be in the form of a string, and it will be the decoded version of the input string. The following is an example output for the above list:
Output: "abccdcdcdxyz"
Coding exercise
Implement the decode_string(s)
function, where s
is the encoded string that you have to decode.
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