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1081. Smallest Subsequence of Distinct Characters (Medium)

Return the lexicographically smallest subsequence of s that contains all the distinct characters of s exactly once.

Note: This question is the same as 316: https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-duplicate-letters/

 

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

Input: s = "cbacdcbc"
Output: "acdb"

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 1000
• s consists of lowercase English letters.

Related Topics

[Stack] [Greedy] [String]

Hints

Hint 1

Greedily try to add one missing character. How to check if adding some character will not cause problems ? Use bit-masks to check whether you will be able to complete the sub-sequence if you add the character at some index i.