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Solution: Total Appeal of a String

Explore an efficient approach to calculate a string's total appeal by leveraging hash maps to track character occurrences. This lesson teaches how to sum the unique character counts across all substrings with a time complexity of O(n), enabling improved problem-solving skills for string manipulation tasks.

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 ...