🧠 Before you code — what pattern fits?
You are given a string s containing stars '*'. In one operation, choose a star, remove the closest non-star character to its left, and remove the star itself. Return the string after all stars have been removed.
"leet**cod*e" → "lecoe"
"erase*****" → ""
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