Problem · String
Remove Duplicate Letters for the Largest Result
Problem statement
Given a lowercase string s, remove characters so that every distinct letter appears exactly once. The remaining characters must preserve their original relative order.
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ProExamples
Example 1
s = "bcabc"return = "cab"The subsequence cab contains each distinct letter once and is lexicographically largest.
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