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Problem: Count Substrings with Only One Distinct Letter
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30 min
Explore how to identify and count substrings composed of a single distinct letter in a string. This lesson helps you understand the problem constraints and apply efficient techniques in math and string manipulation to solve substring counting challenges.
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Given a string s, return the total number of substrings that contain only one distinct letter.
Constraints:
s.lengths[i]consists of only lowercase English letters.
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Problem: Count Substrings with Only One Distinct Letter
Medium
30 min
Explore how to identify and count substrings composed of a single distinct letter in a string. This lesson helps you understand the problem constraints and apply efficient techniques in math and string manipulation to solve substring counting challenges.
Statement
Given a string s, return the total number of substrings that contain only one distinct letter.
Constraints:
s.lengths[i]consists of only lowercase English letters.