Try to solve the Longest Repeating Character Replacement problem.
Statement
Given a string, s, and an integer, k, find the length of the longest substring in s, where all characters are identical, after replacing, at most, k characters with any other uppercase English character.
Constraints:
s.lengthsconsists of only uppercase English characters.ks.length
Examples
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Longest Repeating Character Replacement
What is the correct output for the following input values?
“abab”,
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function longestRepeatingCharacterReplacement(s, k) {// Replace this placeholder return statement with your codereturn -1;}export {longestRepeatingCharacterReplacement};