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Problem: Number of Wonderful Substrings

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30 min
Explore how to identify and count wonderful substrings where at most one letter appears an odd number of times by applying hash map techniques. This lesson helps you understand the problem constraints, logic, and implement efficient solutions to similar substring problems in coding interviews.

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
Explore how to identify and count wonderful substrings where at most one letter appears an odd number of times by applying hash map techniques. This lesson helps you understand the problem constraints, logic, and implement efficient solutions to similar substring problems in coding interviews.

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'.