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Problem: Total Appeal of a String

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30 min
Explore how to calculate the total appeal of a string by summing the count of unique characters in all its substrings. This lesson guides you through understanding the problem, applying hash map concepts, and implementing a solution to track and sum unique characters efficiently.

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 33, as it contains three distinct characters: ‘x’, ‘y’, and ‘z’.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s.length 103\leq 10^3

  • s consists of only lowercase English letters.

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Problem: Total Appeal of a String

Medium
30 min
Explore how to calculate the total appeal of a string by summing the count of unique characters in all its substrings. This lesson guides you through understanding the problem, applying hash map concepts, and implementing a solution to track and sum unique characters efficiently.

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 33, as it contains three distinct characters: ‘x’, ‘y’, and ‘z’.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s.length 103\leq 10^3

  • s consists of only lowercase English letters.