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Solution: Find the Lexicographically Largest String From Box II

Explore how to find the lexicographically largest substring from unique splits of a string using two pointers. Understand the method to compare substrings efficiently in linear time and handle edge cases when splitting by the number of friends. This lesson helps you master this pattern for optimized string manipulation.

Statement

You are given a string, word, and an integer numFriends, representing the number of friends participating in a game organized by Alice.

The game consists of multiple rounds, and in each round:

  • The string word is split into exactly numFriends non-empty substrings.

  • The split must be unique; no previous round has produced the same sequence of splits.

  • All resulting substrings from the split are placed into a box.

When all rounds are over and all possible unique splits have been performed, determine the lexicographically largest string among all the substrings in the box.

A string aa is considered lexicographically larger than a string bb if:

  • At the first position where aa and bb differ, the character in aa comes later than the corresponding character in bb in the alphabet.

  • If ...