2487. Optimal Partition of String

Medium
Hash Table
String
Greedy

Description

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.

Hints

Hint 1
Try to come up with a greedy approach.
Hint 2
From left to right, extend every substring in the partition as much as possible.

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