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1796. Second Largest Digit in a String

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Description

Given an alphanumeric string s, return the second largest numerical digit that appears in s, or -1 if it does not exist.

An alphanumeric string is a string consisting of lowercase English letters and digits.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "dfa12321afd"
Output: 2
Explanation: The digits that appear in s are [1, 2, 3]. The second largest digit is 2.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abc1111"
Output: -1
Explanation: The digits that appear in s are [1]. There is no second largest digit.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 500
  • s consists of only lowercase English letters and/or digits.

Solution

second-largest-digit-in-a-string.py
class Solution:
    def secondHighest(self, s: str) -> int:
        res = set(list(c for c in s if c.isdigit()))

        return sorted(list(res))[-2] if len(res) > 1 else -1