Smallest String With Swaps Problem
Smallest String With Swaps Problem — ExecCode Medium DSA Practice
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Problem description
You are given a string s and an array of pairs of indices in that string where each pair pairs[i] = [ai, bi] means you may swap the characters at positions ai and bi any number of times, in any order. Return the lexicographically smallest string that can be obtained by performing any sequence of the allowed swaps.
Examples
Input {"s": "dcab", "pairs": [[0, 3], [1, 2]]}; Output bacd. Input {"s": "dcab", "pairs": [[0, 3], [1, 2], [0, 2]]}; Output abcd. Input {"s": "cba", "pairs": [[0, 1], [1, 2]]}; Output abc
Constraints
1 ≤ s.length ≤ 10⁵ 0 ≤ pairs.length ≤ s.length 0 ≤ ai, bi < s.length s consists only of lowercase English letters.
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