Problem
You are given a string s
and an integer k
, a k
duplicate removal consists of choosing k
adjacent and equal letters from s
and removing them, causing the left and the right side of the deleted substring to concatenate together.
We repeatedly make k
duplicate removals on s
until we no longer can.
Return the final string after all such duplicate removals have been made. It is guaranteed that the answer is unique.
Example 1:
Input: s = "abcd", k = 2 Output: "abcd" Explanation: There's nothing to delete.
Example 2:
Input: s = "deeedbbcccbdaa", k = 3 Output: "aa" Explanation: First delete "eee" and "ccc", get "ddbbbdaa" Then delete "bbb", get "dddaa" Finally delete "ddd", get "aa"
Example 3:
Input: s = "pbbcggttciiippooaais", k = 2 Output: "ps"
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 105
2 <= k <= 104
s
only contains lowercase English letters.