Write a Program to Remove Stars From a String
# 2390. Removing Stars From a String
You are given a string s, which contains stars *.
In one operation, you can:
Choose a star in s.
Remove the closest non-star character to its left, as well as remove the star itself.
Return the string after all stars have been removed.
Note:
The input will be generated such that the operation is always possible.
It can be shown that the resulting string will always be unique.
### Example 1: ``` Input: s = "leet**cod*e" Output: "lecoe" Explanation: Performing the removals from left to right: - The closest character to the 1st star is 't' in "leet**cod*e". s becomes "lee*cod*e". - The closest character to the 2nd star is 'e' in "lee*cod*e". s becomes "lecod*e". - The closest character to the 3rd star is 'd' in "lecod*e". s becomes "lecoe". There are no more stars, so we return "lecoe". ```
### Example 2: ``` Input: s = "erase*****" Output: "" Explanation: The entire string is removed, so we return an empty string. ```
Constraints: ``` 1 <= s.length <= 105 s consists of lowercase English letters and stars *. The operation above can be performed on s. ```
/** * @param {string} s * @return {string} */ var removeStars = function(s) { const out = []; for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++) { s[i] == '*' ? out.pop() : out.push(s[i]); } return out.join(''); };