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Md Ariful Haque @mah-shamim

Remove K Digits From String For Smallest Number

Remove K Digits: Use stack-based greedy approach to build smallest possible number by removing k digits from input string num. Handle leading zeros and edge cases.

402. Remove K Digits
Difficulty: Medium
Topics: String, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack
Given string num representing a non-negative integer num, and an integer k, return the smallest possible integer after removing k digits from num.
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...