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Solution: Count Substrings with Only One Distinct Letter

Understand how to count all substrings with only one distinct letter by tracking consecutive characters in a string. Learn an efficient O(n) solution that uses running counts to avoid repeated computations and applies arithmetic insights for optimal performance.

Statement

Given a string s, return the total number of substrings that contain only one distinct letter.

Constraints:

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