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1915. Number of Wonderful Substrings

1915. Number of Wonderful Substrings

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A wonderful string is a string where at most one letter appears an odd number of times.

  • For example, "ccjjc" and "abab" are wonderful, but "ab" is not.

Given a string word that consists of the first ten lowercase English letters ('a' through 'j'), return the number of wonderful non-empty substrings in word. If the same substring appears multiple times in word, then count each occurrence separately.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters in a string.

Example 1:

  • Input: word = "aba"
  • Output: 4
  • Explanation: The four wonderful substrings are underlined below:
    • "aba" -> "a"
    • "aba" -> "b"
    • "aba" -> "a"
    • "aba" -> "aba"

Example 2:

  • Input: word = "aabb"
  • Output: 9
  • Explanation: The nine wonderful substrings are underlined below:
    • "aabb" -> "a"
    • "aabb" -> "aa"
    • "aabb" -> "aab"
    • "aabb" -> "aabb"
    • "aabb" -> "a"
    • "aabb" -> "abb"
    • "aabb" -> "b"
    • "aabb" -> "bb"
    • "aabb" -> "b"

Example 3:

  • Input: word = "he"
  • Output: 2
  • Explanation: The two wonderful substrings are underlined below:
    • "he" -> "h"
    • "he" -> "e"

Constraints:

  • 1 <= word.length <= 105
  • word consists of lowercase English letters from 'a' to 'j'.

Solution:

class Solution {

    /**
     * @param String $word
     * @return Integer
     */
    function wonderfulSubstrings($word) {
        $ans = 0;
        $prefix = 0;
        $count = array_fill(0, 1024, 0);
        $count[0] = 1;

        foreach(str_split($word) as $c) {
            $prefix ^= 1 << ord($c) - ord('a');
            $ans += $count[$prefix];
            for ($i = 0; $i < 10; ++$i)
                $ans += $count[$prefix ^ 1 << $i];
            ++$count[$prefix];
        }

        return $ans;
    }
}
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