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Remove Duplicate Letters

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StringStackGreedyMonotonic Stack

Given a string s, remove duplicate letters so that every letter appears exactly once. Among all such results, return the lexicographically smallest one.

Example 1

Input:  s = "bcabc"
Output: "abc"

Example 2

Input:  s = "cbacdcbc"
Output: "acdb"
Explanation: Keeping the first c, then a, then d, then b gives the smallest arrangement in which each letter appears once.

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 10^4
  • s consists of lowercase English letters
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