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Abhishek Chaudhary
Abhishek Chaudhary

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Last Substring in Lexicographical Order

Given a string s, return the last substring of s in lexicographical order.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abab"
Output: "bab"
Explanation: The substrings are ["a", "ab", "aba", "abab", "b", "ba", "bab"]. The lexicographically maximum substring is "bab".

Example 2:

Input: s = "leetcode"
Output: "tcode"

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 4 * 105
  • s contains only lowercase English letters.

SOLUTION:

class Solution: def lastSubstring(self, s: str) -> str: n = len(s) maxSub = "" for i in range(n): maxSub = max(maxSub, s[i:]) return maxSub 
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