Balanced brackets in Java

Java interview exercise on Collections, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Write isBalanced(s) that returns true when every opening bracket in s ( [ { has its matching closer in the right order. Other characters are ignored. Use a Deque<Character> as a stack: push openers, and on a closer check that the top is its partner.

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