#3474
Lexicographically Smallest Generated String
hard · 31.6% accepted · 31 likes · top 9%
string · greedy · string matching
Description
You are given two strings, str1 and str2, of lengths n and m, respectively.
A string word of length n + m - 1 is defined to be generated by str1 and str2 if it satisfies the following conditions for each index 0 <= i <= n - 1:
- If str1[i] == 'T', the substring of word with size m starting at index i is equal to str2, i.e., word[i..(i + m - 1)] == str2.
- If str1[i] == 'F', the substring of word with size m starting at index i is not equal to str2, i.e., word[i..(i + m - 1)] != str2.
Return the lexicographically smallest possible string that can be generated by str1 and str2. If no string can be generated, return an empty string "".
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