- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Hash Table, String, Counting, leetcode-1781, O(n^2), O(1)
Problem
The beauty of a string is the difference in frequencies between the most frequent and least frequent characters.
- For example, the beauty of
"abaacc"
is3 - 1 = 2
.
Given a string s
, return the sum of beauty of all of its substrings.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aabcb" Output: 5 Explanation: The substrings with non-zero beauty are ["aab","aabc","aabcb","abcb","bcb"], each with beauty equal to 1.
Example 2:
Input: s = "aabcbaa" Output: 17
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 500
s
consists of only lowercase English letters.