- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Stack, Greedy, String, Monotonic Stack, leetcode-402, O(n), LintCode
Problem
Given string num representing a non-negative integer num
, and an integer k
, return the smallest possible integer after removing k
digits from num
.
Example 1:
Input: num = "1432219", k = 3 Output: "1219" Explanation: Remove the three digits 4, 3, and 2 to form the new number 1219 which is the smallest.
Example 2:
Input: num = "10200", k = 1 Output: "200" Explanation: Remove the leading 1 and the number is 200. Note that the output must not contain leading zeroes.
Example 3:
Input: num = "10", k = 2 Output: "0" Explanation: Remove all the digits from the number and it is left with nothing which is 0.
Constraints:
1 <= k <= num.length <= 105
num
consists of only digits.num
does not have any leading zeros except for the zero itself.