LeetCode 2264, Easy. Topics: String. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
You are given a string num representing a large integer. An integer is good if it meets the following conditions:
- It is a substring of
num with length 3.
- It consists of only one unique digit.
Return the maximum good integer as a string or an empty string "" if no such integer exists.
Note:
- A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.
- There may be leading zeroes in
num or a good integer.
Examples
Constraints
- 3 <= num.length <= 1000
- num only consists of digits.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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