Generate Parentheses Backtracking | Dataford Interview Questions

Tell me how you would generate all valid parentheses combinations and explain your backtracking logic.

Implement a function that returns every balanced string containing n pairs of parentheses. Use backtracking to build the strings and avoid exploring invalid partial states.

Function signature: def generate_parentheses(n):

Input: an integer n Output: a list of strings containing all valid combinations

Constraints

1 <= n <= 8
Each string must contain exactly n opening and n closing parentheses
Return all valid combinations in any order

Function Signature

def generate_parentheses(n):

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