- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Hash Table, String, Sliding Window, leetcode-2743, Two Pointers, O(n), O(1)
Problem
You are given a string s
consisting only of lowercase English letters. We call a substring special if it contains no character which has occurred at least twice (in other words, it does not contain a repeating character). Your task is to count the number of special substrings. For example, in the string "pop"
, the substring "po"
is a special substring, however, "pop"
is not special (since 'p'
has occurred twice).
Return the number of special substrings.
A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. For example, "abc"
is a substring of "abcd"
, but "acd"
is not.
Example 1:
Input: s = "abcd" Output: 10 Explanation: Since each character occurs once, every substring is a special substring. We have 4 substrings of length one, 3 of length two, 2 of length three, and 1 substring of length four. So overall there are 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10 special substrings.
Example 2:
Input: s = "ooo" Output: 3 Explanation: Any substring with a length of at least two contains a repeating character. So we have to count the number of substrings of length one, which is 3.
Example 3:
Input: s = "abab" Output: 7 Explanation: Special substrings are as follows (sorted by their start positions): Special substrings of length 1: "a", "b", "a", "b" Special substrings of length 2: "ab", "ba", "ab" And it can be shown that there are no special substrings with a length of at least three. So the answer would be 4 + 3 = 7.
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 105
s
consists of lowercase English letters