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Practice Orderly Queue

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Hard#899
LeetCode Problem

Orderly Queue

Problem Statement

You are given a string s and an integer k. You can choose one of the first k letters of s and append it at the end of the string. Return the lexicographically smallest string you could have after applying the mentioned step any number of moves.

Source: Orderly Queue on LeetCode. Use the original task for its coding environment and submissions.

Examples

# Example 1

Input
s = "cba", k = 1
Output
"acb"

# Example 2

Input
s = "baaca", k = 3
Output
"aaabc"

Constraints

1 <= k <= s.length <= 1000
s consist of lowercase English letters.

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