Problem Brief
Minimum Substrings Without Repeating Characters
OA
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Given a string S, find the minimum number of substrings without repeating characters.
1Example 1
Input
S = "word"
Output
1
Explanation
The answer is 1 as "word" doesn't have any duplicates.
2Example 2
Input
S = "dddd"
Output
4
Explanation
The answer is 4 as we can only form substrings "d", "d", "d", "d".
3Example 3
Input
S = "cycle"
Output
2
Explanation
The answer is 2 as we can make substrings "cy" and "cle".