Grokking the Coding Interview: Patterns for Coding Questions
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Decode String (medium)

Problem Statement

You have a string that represents encodings of substrings, where each encoding is of the form k[encoded_string], where k is a positive integer, and encoded_string is a string that contains letters only.

Your task is to decode this string by repeating the encoded_string k times and return it. It is given that k is always a positive integer.

Examples

    • Input: "3[a3[c]]"
    • Expected Output: "acccacccaccc"
    • Justification: The inner 3[c] is decoded as ccc, and then a is appended to the front, forming acc

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