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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in JavaScript

Number of Wonderful Substrings

Explore how to identify and count wonderful substrings within a string by using hash maps. Understand the concept of substrings with at most one odd-frequency letter and practice implementing this in a coding environment. This lesson strengthens skills in string manipulation and hash map application relevant to coding interviews.

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Statement

A wonderful string is defined as a string in which at most one letter occurs an odd number of times.

For example:

  • The string “aabbc” is wonderful because only the letter 'c' appears an odd number of times.

  • The string “pqpq” is wonderful because all letters appear an even number of times.

  • The string “mn” is not wonderful because both 'm' and 'n' appear an odd number of times.

You are given a string word that ...