1209. Remove All Adjacent Duplicates in String II
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You are given a string s and an integer k, a k duplicate removal consists of choosing k adjacent and equal letters from s and removing them, causing the left and the right side of the deleted substring to concatenate together.
We repeatedly make k duplicate removals on s until we no longer can.
Return the final string after all such duplicate removals have been made. It is guaranteed that the answer is unique.
Example 1:
Input: s = "abcd", k = 2 Output: "abcd" Explanation: There's nothing to delete.
Example 2:
Input: s = "deeedbbcccbdaa", k = 3 Output: "aa" Explanation: First delete "eee" and "ccc", get "ddbbbdaa" Then delete "bbb", get "dddaa" Finally delete "ddd", get "aa"
Example 3:
Input: s = "pbbcggttciiippooaais", k = 2 Output: "ps"
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 1052 <= k <= 104sonly contains lowercase English letters.
Hints
Hint 1
Use a stack to store the characters, when there are k same characters, delete them.
Hint 2
To make it more efficient, use a pair to store the value and the count of each character.