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Solution: Count Substrings with Only One Distinct Letter

Explore how to count substrings containing only one distinct letter by tracking consecutive character runs and summing their contributions efficiently in a single pass. This lesson helps you understand an arithmetic approach to solve this problem with a linear time complexity and constant space usage.

Statement

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

Constraints:

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