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744. Find Smallest Letter Greater Than Target

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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"

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