Day30 q2: Find Smallest Letter Greater Than Target

[sumiranverma]

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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