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Solution: Jewels and Stones

Understand how to apply hash maps to solve the Jewels and Stones problem by counting characters effectively. This lesson teaches you to implement a fast membership check using a set, improving both time and space complexity in your coding solutions.

Statement

You are given two strings, jewels and stones. Each character in jewels represents a stone type that is a jewel, and each character in stones represents a stone you have. Count how many characters in stones belong to the set of characters in jewels.

Note: Matching is case-sensitive, so 'a' and 'A' are different types of stones.

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