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.
Note:
- 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.
Example 2:
Input: num = "10200", k = 1 Output: "200" Explanation: Remove the leading 1 and the number is 200. Note that the output must not contain leading zeroes.
Example 3:
Input: num = "10", k = 2 Output: "0" Explanation: Remove all the digits from the number and it is left with nothing which is 0.
这道题让我们将给定的数字去掉k位,要使得留下来的数字最小,这题跟 LeetCode 上之前那道 Create Maximum Number 有些类似,可以借鉴其中的思路,如果n是 num 的长度,我们要去除k个,那么需要剩下 n-k 个,怎么判断哪些数字应该去掉呢?首先来考虑,若数字是递增的话,比如 1234,那么肯定是要从最后面移除最大的数字。若是乱序的时候,比如 1324,若只移除一个数字,移除谁呢?这个例子比较简单,我们一眼可以看出是移除3,变成 124 是最小。但是怎么设计算法呢,实际上这里利用到了单调栈的思想,可以参见博主之前的一篇总结帖
解法一: 下面这种方法写法稍稍不同,在将数字c加入结果 res 的时候提前做一个判断,假如此时 res 不为空或者数字c不是0,那么才将c加入结果 res 中,这样就避免了 leading zero。for 循环结束后,不是将结果 resize,而是用一个 while 循环,假如此时 k 还大于0,则将 res 末尾移除k个字符即可,参见代码如下: 解法二: Github 同步地址: https://github.com/grandyang/leetcode/issues/402 类似题目: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;
}
};
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;
}
if (res.size() || c != '0') res.push_back(c);
}
while (res.size() && k--) res.pop_back();
return res.empty() ? "0" : res;
}
};
参考资料:
https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-k-digits/
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