You are given a string s.
You can perform the following process on s any number of times:
i in the string such that there is at least one character to the left of index i that is equal to s[i], and at least one character to the right that is also equal to s[i].i that is equal to s[i].i that is equal to s[i].Return the minimum length of the final string s that you can achieve.
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Example 1:
\n\nInput: s = "abaacbcbb"
\n\nOutput: 5
\n\nExplanation:
\nWe do the following operations:
s = "bacbcbb".s = "acbcb".Example 2:
\n\nInput: s = "aa"
\n\nOutput: 2
\n\nExplanation:
\nWe cannot perform any operations, so we return the length of the original string.
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Constraints:
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