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Solution: Largest Odd Number in String

Explore how to identify the largest odd number substring within a given numeric string by scanning from the end. Understand the greedy technique that efficiently extracts the largest odd-valued substring in linear time while using constant space.

Statement

You are given a string, num, which represents a large integer. Your task is to find the largest odd-valued integer that can be formed as a non-empty substring of num. Return this odd integer as a string. If no odd integer exists, return an empty string ("").

Note: A substring is a continuous sequence of characters within a string.

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