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Total Appeal of a String

Explore how to calculate the total appeal of a string by understanding and applying hash map techniques. Learn to sum the distinct characters across all substrings, improving your problem-solving skills in coding interviews by mastering this key pattern.

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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 ...