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3174. Clear Digits

You are given a string s. Your task is to remove all digits by doing this operation repeatedly: Delete the first digit and the closest non-digit character to its left. Return the resulting string after removing all digits.

Example 1:

Input: s = “abc”
Output: “abc”

Explanation:

There is no digit in the string.

Example 2:

Input: s = “cb34”
Output: “”

Explanation:

First, we apply the operation on s[2], and s becomes "c4".
Then we apply the operation on s[1], and s becomes "".

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 100
  • s consists only of lowercase English letters and digits.
  • The input is generated such that it is possible to delete all digits.

    string clearDigits(string s) {
        stack<char> sc;
        string result = "";
        for( char c : s ){
            if( c >= 48 && c <=57 ){
                sc.pop();
            } else
                sc.push(c);
        }
        while( !sc.empty() ){
            result+= sc.top();
            sc.pop();
        }
        reverse( result.begin(), result.end());
        return result;
    }