Removing Stars From a String

Medium

Given a string s with letters and *. Each * removes the closest non-star character to its left (and itself). Return the resulting string.

Example 1

Input:  s = "leet**cod*e"
Output: "lecoe"

Example 2

Input:  s = "erase*****"
Output: ""

Constraints

• 1 <= s.length <= 10^5
• The operation is always possible.