Remove Duplicate Letters
Created: March 19, 2020 by [lek-tin]
Last updated: March 19, 2020
Given a string which contains only lowercase letters, remove duplicate letters so that every letter appears once and only once. You must make sure your result is the smallest in lexicographical order among all possible results.
Example 1
Input: "bcabc"
Output: "abc"
Example 2
Input: "cbacdcbc"
Output: "acdb"
Example 3
Input: "cba"
Output: "cba"
Solution
class Solution:
def removeDuplicateLetters(self, s: str) -> str:
stack = []
seen = set()
last_indices = {c: i for i, c in enumerate(s)}
for i, c in enumerate(s):
print(c, seen, stack)
if c not in seen:
while stack and c < stack[-1] and i < last_indices[stack[-1]]:
seen.remove(stack.pop())
seen.add(c)
stack.append(c)
return "".join(stack)