Given a list of sorted characters letters
containing only lowercase letters, and given a target letter target
, find the smallest element in the list that is larger than the given target.
Letters also wrap around. For example, if the target is target = 'z'
and letters = ['a', 'b']
, the answer is 'a'
.
Examples:
Input:
letters = ["c", "f", "j"]
target = "a"
Output: "c" Input:
letters = ["c", "f", "j"]
target = "c"
Output: "f" Input:
letters = ["c", "f", "j"]
target = "d"
Output: "f" Input:
letters = ["c", "f", "j"]
target = "g"
Output: "j" Input:
letters = ["c", "f", "j"]
target = "j"
Output: "c" Input:
letters = ["c", "f", "j"]
target = "k"
Output: "c"
Note:
-
letters
has a length in range[2, 10000]
. -
letters
consists of lowercase letters, and contains at least 2 unique letters. -
target
is a lowercase letter.
class Solution(object):
def nextGreatestLetter(self, letters, target):
"""
:type letters: List[str]
:type target: str
:rtype: str
"""
i=0
n=len(letters)
o=ord(target)
while i<n:
if ord(letters[i])>o:
return letters[i]
else:
i+=1
if i==n:
return letters[0]