import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.*;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FastScanner sc = new FastScanner();
        String s = sc.next();
        int l = sc.nextInt();
        List<String> list = new ArrayList<>(l+1);
        lbl2: for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
            lbl: for (int j = i + 1; j <= s.length(); j++) {
                if (list.size() > l) {
                    list.remove(l);
                }
                String sb = s.substring(i, j);
                if (list.contains(sb)) {
                    continue lbl;
                }
                for (int k = list.size() - 1; k >= 0; k--) {
                    if (list.get(k).compareTo(sb) <= 0) {
                        if (k == l - 1) {
                            continue lbl2;
                        }
                        list.add(k + 1, sb);
                        continue lbl;
                    }
                }
                list.add(0, sb);
            }
        }
        System.out.println(list.get(l - 1));
    }

    static class FastScanner {
        private final InputStream in = System.in;
        private final byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        private int ptr = 0;
        private int buflen = 0;
        private boolean hasNextByte() {
            if (ptr < buflen) {
                return true;
            }else{
                ptr = 0;
                try {
                    buflen = in.read(buffer);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                if (buflen <= 0) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
        private int readByte() { if (hasNextByte()) return buffer[ptr++]; else return -1;}
        private static boolean isPrintableChar(int c) { return 33 <= c && c <= 126;}
        public boolean hasNext() { while(hasNextByte() && !isPrintableChar(buffer[ptr])) ptr++; return hasNextByte();}
        public String next() {
            if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            int b = readByte();
            while(isPrintableChar(b)) {
                sb.appendCodePoint(b);
                b = readByte();
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }
        public long nextLong() {
            if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
            long n = 0;
            boolean minus = false;
            int b = readByte();
            if (b == '-') {
                minus = true;
                b = readByte();
            }
            if (b < '0' || '9' < b) {
                throw new NumberFormatException();
            }
            while(true){
                if ('0' <= b && b <= '9') {
                    n *= 10;
                    n += b - '0';
                }else if(b == -1 || !isPrintableChar(b)){
                    return minus ? -n : n;
                }else{
                    throw new NumberFormatException();
                }
                b = readByte();
            }
        }
        public int nextInt() {
            long nl = nextLong();
            if (nl < Integer.MIN_VALUE || nl > Integer.MAX_VALUE) throw new NumberFormatException();
            return (int) nl;
        }
        public double nextDouble() { return Double.parseDouble(next());}
    }

}


Measured memory_bytes: 21716