- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Stack, Greedy, String, Monotonic Stack, leetcode-316, O(n), O(1), Hard, Mono Stack
Problem
Given a string s
, 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: s = "bcabc" Output: "abc"
Example 2:
Input: s = "cbacdcbc" Output: "acdb"
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 104
s
consists of lowercase English letters.
Note: This question is the same as 1081: https://leetcode.com/problems/smallest-subsequence-of-distinct-characters/