Determine if a string has valid parentheses. Only parentheses characters are considered: '(' and ')'. Other characters are ignored. An empty string is valid. Return null for null input.

Examples:

Input: s = "()" Output: true Explanation: Opening and closing parentheses are balanced Input: s = "())(" Output: false Explanation: Closing appears before matching opening
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