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Solution: Total Appeal of a String

Understand how to calculate the total appeal of a string by tracking unique character occurrences in substrings. Explore an efficient O(n) algorithm using hash maps to avoid redundant counting and manage character contributions effectively.

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Statement

Given a string s, return its total appeal, which is calculated by summing the appeals of all its substringsA substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string..

The appeal of a string is defined as the count of unique characters present in that string.

For instance, the appeal of “xyzxz” is 3 ...