find-smallest-letter-greater-than-target

find-smallest-letter-greater-than-target


You are given an array of characters letters that is sorted in non-decreasing order, and a character target. There are at least two different characters in letters.



Return the smallest character in letters that is lexicographically greater than target. If such a character does not exist, return the first character in letters.



 


Example 1:



Input: letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "a"
Output: "c"
Explanation: The smallest character that is lexicographically greater than 'a' in letters is 'c'.


Example 2:



Input: letters = ["c","f","j"], target = "c"
Output: "f"
Explanation: The smallest character that is lexicographically greater than 'c' in letters is 'f'.


Example 3:



Input: letters = ["x","x","y","y"], target = "z"
Output: "x"
Explanation: There are no characters in letters that is lexicographically greater than 'z' so we return letters[0].


 


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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