Solution: Partition Labels
Explore the two pointers approach to solve the Partition Labels problem, where you divide a string into the maximum number of parts such that each character appears in only one partition. Understand how to track last occurrences of characters and create partitions efficiently in linear time.
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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.
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