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Solution: First Unique Character in a String

Understand how to track character occurrences in a string by using a hash map to find the first unique character. Learn to implement this solution with linear time complexity and constant space usage, enabling efficient handling of strings and similar coding interview problems.

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 ...