Remove K Digits

Remove K Digits

• 题目
• 代码块
• 想法

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Description

Given a non-negative integer num represented as a string, remove k digits from the number so that the new number is the smallest possible.

The length of num is less than 10002 and will be ≥ k.
The given num does not contain any leading zero.

Example 1:
Input: num = “1432219”, k = 3
Output: “1219”
Explanation: Remove the three digits 4, 3, and 2 to form the new number 1219 which is the smallest.

代码

class Solution {
public:
    string removeKdigits(string num, int k) {
        string res = "";
        int n = num.size(), keep = n - k;
        for (char c : num) {
            while (k && res.size() && res.back() > c) {
                res.pop_back();
                --k;
            }
            res.push_back(c);
        }
        res.resize(keep);
        while (!res.empty() && res[0] == '0') res.erase(res.begin());
        return res.empty() ? "0" : res;
    }
};

想法

对于要进行的字符串，从前往后，一定是消除前面比后面大的数值，所以可以先建立另一个string保存遍历到的字符，直到另一个string最后字符比下一个遍历的字符大，该字符就是需要消除的字符，而对于开头为0，则是消除，如果最后string为空，那么长度为0.