Number of Wonderful Substrings

Try to solve the Number of Wonderful Substrings problem.

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'.

Examples

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