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Easy#1903
LeetCode Problem

Largest Odd Number in String

Problem Statement

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.

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Examples

# Example 1

Input
num = "52"
Output
"5"

# Example 2

Input
num = "4206"
Output
""

# Example 3

Input
num = "35427"
Output
"35427"

Constraints

1 <= num.length <= 10^5
num only consists of digits and does not contain any leading zeros.

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