0744. Find Smallest Letter Greater Than Target

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-smallest-letter-greater-than-target

Description

Given a characters array letters that is sorted in non-decreasing order and a character target, return the smallest character in the array that is larger than target.

Note that the letters wrap around.

  • For example, if target == 'z' and letters == ['a', 'b'], the answer is 'a'.

Example 1:

**Input:** letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "a"
**Output:** "c"

Example 2:

**Input:** letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "c"
**Output:** "f"

Example 3:

**Input:** letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "d"
**Output:** "f"

Example 4:

**Input:** letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "g"
**Output:** "j"

Example 5:

**Input:** letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "j"
**Output:** "c"

Constraints:

  • 2 <= letters.length <= 104

  • letters[i] is a lowercase English letter.

  • letters is sorted in non-decreasing order.

  • letters contains at least two different characters.

  • target is a lowercase English letter.

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