1047. Remove All Adjacent Duplicates In String
https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-all-adjacent-duplicates-in-string/
Given a string
S of lowercase letters, a duplicate removal consists of choosing two adjacent and equal letters, and removing them.
We repeatedly make duplicate removals on S until we no longer can.
Return the final string after all such duplicate removals have been made. It is guaranteed the answer is unique.
Example 1:
Input: "abbaca" Output: "ca" Explanation: For example, in "abbaca" we could remove "bb" since the letters are adjacent and equal, and this is the only possible move. The result of this move is that the string is "aaca", of which only "aa" is possible, so the final string is "ca".
Note:
1 <= S.length <= 20000Sconsists only of English lowercase letters.
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Intuition
Duplicates => only 2 neighboring elements are same
We need to traverse string and need a data structure to look back at last added element => stack
If string char is same as top of stack - pop from stack
if string char is different - push char to stack
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Time - O(n)
Space - O(n)
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