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Day30 q2: Find Smallest Letter Greater Than Target #619

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You are given an array of characters letters that is sorted in non-decreasing order, and a character target. There are at least two different characters in letters.

Return the smallest character in letters that is lexicographically greater than target. If such a character does not exist, return the first character in letters.

Example 1:

Input: letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "a"
Output: "c"
Explanation: The smallest character that is lexicographically greater than 'a' in letters is 'c'.

Example 2:

Input: letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "c"
Output: "f"
Explanation: The smallest character that is lexicographically greater than 'c' in letters is 'f'.

Example 3:

Input: letters = ["x","x","y","y"], target = "z"
Output: "x"
Explanation: There are no characters in letters that is lexicographically greater than 'z' so we return letters[0].

Constraints:

  • 2 <= letters.length <= 10^4
  • letters[i] is a lowercase English letter.
  • letters is sorted in non-decreasing order.
  • letters contains at least two different characters.
  • target is a lowercase English letter.

Problem Link

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-smallest-letter-greater-than-target/

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