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Solution: First Unique Character in a String

Understand how to track character occurrences in a string to find the first unique character's index. This lesson guides you through using hash maps to store frequency counts, traverse the string efficiently, and return the correct index or -1 if no unique character exists. Explore this approach to coding problems and improve your problem-solving skills.

Statement

For a given string of characters, s, your task is to find the first non-repeating character and return its index. Return 1-1 if there’s no unique character in the given string.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s.length ...