package main import ( "sort" "strconv" "strings" ) // StringSlice ... type StringSlice []string func (strs StringSlice) Len() int { return len(strs) } func (strs StringSlice) Swap(i, j int) { strs[i], strs[j] = strs[j], strs[i] } func (strs StringSlice) Less(i, j int) bool { // Less is "More" len1, len2 := len(strs[i]), len(strs[j]) for k := 0; k < len1 && k < len2; k++ { if strs[i][k] != strs[j][k] { return strs[i][k] > strs[j][k] } } if len1 < len2 { for k := len1; k < len2; k++ { if strs[i][0] != strs[j][k] { return strs[i][0] > strs[j][k] } } return strs[j][1] > strs[j][0] // Important! } else if len1 > len2 { for k := len2; k < len1; k++ { if strs[i][k] != strs[j][0] { return strs[i][k] > strs[j][0] } } return strs[i][1] < strs[i][0] } return false // strs[i] equals strs[j] } func largestNumber(nums []int) string { strs := make([]string, 0) for _, n := range nums { strs = append(strs, strconv.Itoa(n)) } sort.Sort(StringSlice(strs)) var sb strings.Builder for _, s := range strs { if sb.Len() == 0 && s == "0" { continue // No leading zero } sb.WriteString(s) } if sb.Len() == 0 { return "0" } return sb.String() } // func main() { // println(largestNumber([]int{ // 12, 121})) // nums := StringSlice([]string{"8308", "830"}) // println(nums.Less(0, 1)) // println(nums.Less(1, 0)) // println(largestNumber([]int{ // 3, 30, 34, 5, 9})) // println(largestNumber([]int{ // 824, 938, 1399, 5607, 6973, 5703, 9609, 4398, 8247})) // answer := largestNumber([]int{ // 9051, 5526, 2264, 5041, 1630, 5906, 6787, 8382, 4662, 4532, // 6804, 4710, 4542, 2116, 7219, 8701, 8308, 957, 8775, 4822, // 396, 8995, 8597, 2304, 8902, 830, 8591, 5828, 9642, 7100, 3976, // 5565, 5490, 1613, 5731, 8052, 8985, 2623, 6325, 3723, 5224, // 8274, 4787, 6310, 3393, 78, 3288, 7584, 7440, 5752, 351, // 4555, 7265, 9959, 3866, 9854, 2709, 5817, 7272, 43, 1014, // 7527, 3946, 4289, 1272, 5213, 710, 1603, 2436, 8823, 5228, // 2581, 771, 3700, 2109, 5638, 3402, 3910, 871, 5441, 6861, // 9556, 1089, 4088, 2788, 9632, 6822, 6145, 5137, 236, 683, // 2869, 9525, 8161, 8374, 2439, 6028, 7813, 6406, 7519}) // correct := "995998549642963295795569525905189958985890288238775871870185978591838283748308830827481618052787813771758475277519744072727265721971071006861683682268046787640663256310614560285906582858175752573156385565552654905441522852245213513750414822478747104662455545424532434289408839763963946391038663723370035134023393328828692788270926232581243924362362304226421162109163016131603127210891014" // println(answer == correct) // }