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Medium#402
LeetCode Problem

Remove K Digits

Problem Statement

Given string num representing a non-negative integer num, and an integer k, return the smallest possible integer after removing k digits from num.

Source: Remove K Digits on LeetCode. Use the original task for its coding environment and submissions.

Examples

# Example 1

Input
num = "1432219", k = 3
Output
"1219"

# Example 2

Input
num = "10200", k = 1
Output
"200"

# Example 3

Input
num = "10", k = 2
Output
"0"

Constraints

1 <= k <= num.length <= 10^5
num consists of only digits.
num does not have any leading zeros except for the zero itself.

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