How to solve the Codewars's Count the smiley faces!

Today I try to solve the algorithm problem of codewars.

Description

Given an array (arr) as an argument complete the function countSmileys that should return the total number of smiling faces.

Rules for a smiling face:

  • Each smiley face must contain a valid pair of eyes. Eyes can be marked as : or ;

  • A smiley face can have a nose but it does not have to. Valid characters for a nose are - or ~

  • Every smiling face must have a smiling mouth that should be marked with either ) or D.

No additional characters are allowed except for those mentioned.

Example

  • countSmileys([’:)’, ‘;(‘, ‘;}’, ‘:-D’]) -> 2

  • countSmileys([‘;D’, ‘:-(‘, ‘:-)’, ‘;~)’]) -> 3

  • countSmileys([’;]’, ‘:[’, ‘;*’, ‘:$’, ‘;-D’]) -> 1

Code

  • charAt() : returns the character at the String’s specified index.
import java.util.*;

public class SmileFaces {
  public static int countSmileys(List<String> arr) {
        # Codewars COC 정책으로 인하여 코드 제거
    return num;
  }
}
Written on December 16, 2018