- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Greedy, Hash Table, String, leetcode-2405, O(n)
Problem
Given a string s
, partition the string into one or more substrings such that the characters in each substring are unique. That is, no letter appears in a single substring more than once.
Return the minimum number of substrings in such a partition.
Note that each character should belong to exactly one substring in a partition.
Example 1:
Input: s = "abacaba" Output: 4 Explanation: Two possible partitions are ("a","ba","cab","a") and ("ab","a","ca","ba"). It can be shown that 4 is the minimum number of substrings needed.
Example 2:
Input: s = "ssssss" Output: 6 Explanation: The only valid partition is ("s","s","s","s","s","s").
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 105
s
consists of only English lowercase letters.