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Find Longest Self-Contained Substring

Understand how to identify the longest self-contained substring within a string where all characters are unique and confined to that substring. This lesson helps you apply hash map logic to solve this problem and return the correct length or -1 if none exists.

Statement

You are given a string, s, consisting of lowercase English letters. Your task is to find the length of the longest self-contained substring of s.

A substring t of s is called self-contained if:

  • t is not equal to the entire string s.

  • Every character in t does not appear anywhere else in s ...