Remove Duplicate Letters with Monotonic Stack on LeetCode

55 of #100DaysOfCode: Today I dived into LeetCode 316 (Remove Duplicate Letters). This problem is a fantastic lesson in balancing multiple constraints: maintaining unique characters while ensuring the smallest lexicographical order. The Key Insight: Using a Monotonic Stack approach. The goal isn't just to remove duplicates, but to greedily decide whether to keep a character or pop it based on whether it appears again later in the string. Stack Logic: Pop elements only if they are larger than the current character AND guaranteed to appear later. #cpp #leetcode #programming #algorithms #datastructures #codingcommunity #100daysofcode

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