Count Substrings Starting and Ending with Given Character(LeetCode 3084):

Problem

You are given a string s and a character c. Return the total number of substrings of s that start and end with c.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "abada", c = "a"

Output: 6

Explanation: Substrings starting and ending with "a" are: "abada", "abada", "abada", "abada", "abada", "abada".

Example 2:

Input: s = "zzz", c = "z"

Output: 6

Explanation: There are a total of 6 substrings in s and all start and end with "z".

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 105
  • s and c consist only of lowercase English letters.