Removing Stars From a String
You are given a string s, which contains stars *.
You are given a string s, which contains stars *.
In one operation, you can:
Return the string after all stars have been removed.
Note:
Example 1
Input: s = "leet**cod*e"
Output: "lecoe"
Explanation: Performing the removals from left to right: - The closest character to the 1st star is 't' in "leet**cod*e". s becomes "lee*cod*e". - The closest character to the 2nd star is 'e' in "lee*cod*e". s becomes "lecod*e". - The closest character to the 3rd star is 'd' in "lecod*e". s becomes "lecoe". There are no more stars, so we return "lecoe".
Example 2
Input: s = "erase*****"
Output: ""
Explanation: The entire string is removed, so we return an empty string.
Constraints
- 1 <= s.length <= 10^5
- s consists of lowercase English letters and stars *.
- The operation above can be performed on s.
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