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Solution: Total Appeal of a String

Explore how to efficiently calculate a string's total appeal by summing unique character counts across all substrings. Understand how to use a hash map to track characters’ last occurrences and apply this to avoid redundant counting. This lesson helps you implement a linear time algorithm, improving your grasp of hash maps and substring computations in coding interviews.

Statement

Given a string s, return its total appeal, which is calculated by summing the appeals of all its substringsA substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string..

The appeal of a string is defined as the count of unique characters present in that string.

For instance, the appeal of “xyzxz” is 3 ...