LeetCode 1903, Easy. Topics: Math, String, Greedy. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 16 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
You are given a string num, representing a large integer. Return the largest-valued odd integer (as a string) that is a non-empty substring of num, or an empty string "" if no odd integer exists.
A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= num.length <= 10^5
- num only consists of digits and does not contain any leading zeros.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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