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You are given a string s
and an integer repeatLimit
. Construct a new string repeatLimitedString
using the characters of s
such that no letter appears more than repeatLimit
times in a row. You do not have to use all characters from s
.
Return the lexicographically largest repeatLimitedString
possible.
A string a
is lexicographically larger than a string b
if in the first position where a
and b
differ, string a
has a letter that appears later in the alphabet than the corresponding letter in b
. If the first min(a.length, b.length)
characters do not differ, then the longer string is the lexicographically larger one.
\n
Example 1:
\n\n\nInput: s = "cczazcc", repeatLimit = 3\nOutput: "zzcccac"\nExplanation: We use all of the characters from s to construct the repeatLimitedString "zzcccac".\nThe letter 'a' appears at most 1 time in a row.\nThe letter 'c' appears at most 3 times in a row.\nThe letter 'z' appears at most 2 times in a row.\nHence, no letter appears more than repeatLimit times in a row and the string is a valid repeatLimitedString.\nThe string is the lexicographically largest repeatLimitedString possible so we return "zzcccac".\nNote that the string "zzcccca" is lexicographically larger but the letter 'c' appears more than 3 times in a row, so it is not a valid repeatLimitedString.\n\n\n
Example 2:
\n\n\nInput: s = "aababab", repeatLimit = 2\nOutput: "bbabaa"\nExplanation: We use only some of the characters from s to construct the repeatLimitedString "bbabaa". \nThe letter 'a' appears at most 2 times in a row.\nThe letter 'b' appears at most 2 times in a row.\nHence, no letter appears more than repeatLimit times in a row and the string is a valid repeatLimitedString.\nThe string is the lexicographically largest repeatLimitedString possible so we return "bbabaa".\nNote that the string "bbabaaa" is lexicographically larger but the letter 'a' appears more than 2 times in a row, so it is not a valid repeatLimitedString.\n\n\n
\n
Constraints:
\n\n1 <= repeatLimit <= s.length <= 105
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