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Problem: Minimum String Length After Removing Substrings

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15 min
Explore how to use stacks to solve string manipulation problems by removing specific substrings AB and CD. Understand how repeated removals affect the string and learn to implement a solution that returns the shortest possible string length. This lesson sharpens your skills in problem assessment and stack applications for efficient coding interview answers.

Statement

You are given a string, s, containing only uppercase English letters. You can perform operations on this string where, in each operation, you remove any occurrence of the substrings "AB" or "CD" from s.

Your task is to return the shortest string length after applying all possible operations.

Note: After each removal, the string joins back together, potentially creating new occurrences of "AB" or "CD" that can also be removed.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s.length 100\leq 100

  • s consists only of uppercase English letters.

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Problem: Minimum String Length After Removing Substrings

Easy
15 min
Explore how to use stacks to solve string manipulation problems by removing specific substrings AB and CD. Understand how repeated removals affect the string and learn to implement a solution that returns the shortest possible string length. This lesson sharpens your skills in problem assessment and stack applications for efficient coding interview answers.

Statement

You are given a string, s, containing only uppercase English letters. You can perform operations on this string where, in each operation, you remove any occurrence of the substrings "AB" or "CD" from s.

Your task is to return the shortest string length after applying all possible operations.

Note: After each removal, the string joins back together, potentially creating new occurrences of "AB" or "CD" that can also be removed.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq s.length 100\leq 100

  • s consists only of uppercase English letters.