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Problem: Jewels and Stones

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15 min
Explore how to use hash maps to identify and count jewel stones within a given collection. This lesson helps you understand case-sensitive matching and develop solutions for coding interviews by implementing efficient dictionary-based lookups in Python.

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You are given two strings, jewels and stones. Each character in jewels represents a stone type that is a jewel, and each character in stones represents a stone you have. Count how many characters in stones belong to the set of characters in jewels.

Note: Matching is case-sensitive, so 'a' and 'A' are different types of stones.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq jewels.length, stones.length 50 \leq 50

  • jewels and stones consist of only English letters.

  • All the characters of jewels are unique.

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Problem: Jewels and Stones

Easy
15 min
Explore how to use hash maps to identify and count jewel stones within a given collection. This lesson helps you understand case-sensitive matching and develop solutions for coding interviews by implementing efficient dictionary-based lookups in Python.

Statement

You are given two strings, jewels and stones. Each character in jewels represents a stone type that is a jewel, and each character in stones represents a stone you have. Count how many characters in stones belong to the set of characters in jewels.

Note: Matching is case-sensitive, so 'a' and 'A' are different types of stones.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq jewels.length, stones.length 50 \leq 50

  • jewels and stones consist of only English letters.

  • All the characters of jewels are unique.