Not able to think efficient code

i have submitted the solution but its kind of brute force as it generates all substrings in dictionary order but prints only those which are smaller than input.
pls suggest a more efficient solution.

You will have to generate and store all the possible permutations less than the given string.
You can refer this https://ide.codingblocks.com/s/248165

okay thanks a lot for your help!

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