Given a string s, you have two types of operation:
i in the string, and let c be the character in position i. Delete the closest occurrence of c to the left of i (if exists).i in the string, and let c be the character in position i. Delete the closest occurrence of c to the right of i (if exists).Your task is to minimize the length of s by performing the above operations zero or more times.
Return an integer denoting the length of the minimized string.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aaabc"
Output: 3
Explanation:
i = 1 so c is 'a', then we remove s[2] as it is closest 'a' character to the right of s[1].s becomes "aabc" after this.i = 1 so c is 'a', then we remove s[0] as it is closest 'a' character to the left of s[1].s becomes "abc" after this.Example 2:
Input: s = "cbbd"
Output: 3
Explanation:
i = 2 so c is 'b', then we remove s[1] as it is closest 'b' character to the left of s[1].s becomes "cbd" after this.Example 3:
Input: s = "baadccab"
Output: 4
Explanation:
i = 6 so c is 'a', then we remove s[2] as it is closest 'a' character to the left of s[6].s becomes "badccab" after this.i = 0 so c is 'b', then we remove s[6] as it is closest 'b' character to the right of s[0].s becomes "badcca" fter this.i = 3 so c is 'c', then we remove s[4] as it is closest 'c' character to the right of s[3].s becomes "badca" after this.i = 4 so c is 'a', then we remove s[1] as it is closest 'a' character to the left of s[4].s becomes "bdca" after this.
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 100s contains only lowercase English letters