Solution: Partition Labels
Explore the two-pointer strategy to divide a string into partitions such that each letter appears in only one part. Understand how to track the last occurrence of characters, update partition boundaries, and optimize partition sizes. This lesson guides you to solve the Partition Labels problem efficiently with linear time and constant space.
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Statement
You are given a string s. Your task is to divide the string into as many parts as possible such that each letter appears in at most one part.
In other words, no character should occur in more than one partition. After concatenating all parts in order, the result should be the original string s.
For example, given s = "bcbcdd", a valid partition is ["bcbc", "dd"]. However, partitions like ["bcb", "cdd"] or ["bc", "bc", "dd"] are invalid because some letters appear in multiple parts.
Return a list of integers representing the sizes of these partitions.
Constraints:
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