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Problem: Number of Wonderful Substrings

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30 min
Understand how to identify and count wonderful substrings in a string, where at most one character appears an odd number of times. This lesson helps you apply hash map logic to efficiently solve substring counting problems and improve your coding interview skills.

Statement

wonderful string is defined as a string in which at most one letter occurs an odd number of times.

For example:

  • The string “aabbc” is wonderful because only the letter 'c' appears an odd number of times.

  • The string “pqpq” is wonderful because all letters appear an even number of times.

  • The string “mn” is not wonderful because both 'm' and 'n' appear an odd number of times.

You are given a string word that consists of lowercase English letters from 'a' to 'j'. Your task is to return the total number of wonderful non-empty substringsA substring is any contiguous sequence of characters within the string. in word.

Note: If a substring appears multiple times, each occurrence should be counted separately.

Constraints:

  • 1<=1 <= word.length <=103<= 10^3

  • word consists of lowercase English letters from 'a' to 'j'.

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Problem: Number of Wonderful Substrings

Medium
30 min
Understand how to identify and count wonderful substrings in a string, where at most one character appears an odd number of times. This lesson helps you apply hash map logic to efficiently solve substring counting problems and improve your coding interview skills.

Statement

wonderful string is defined as a string in which at most one letter occurs an odd number of times.

For example:

  • The string “aabbc” is wonderful because only the letter 'c' appears an odd number of times.

  • The string “pqpq” is wonderful because all letters appear an even number of times.

  • The string “mn” is not wonderful because both 'm' and 'n' appear an odd number of times.

You are given a string word that consists of lowercase English letters from 'a' to 'j'. Your task is to return the total number of wonderful non-empty substringsA substring is any contiguous sequence of characters within the string. in word.

Note: If a substring appears multiple times, each occurrence should be counted separately.

Constraints:

  • 1<=1 <= word.length <=103<= 10^3

  • word consists of lowercase English letters from 'a' to 'j'.