Shortest Substring with All Characters
Determine the shortest substring of the string S
that includes every character from S
at least once. If multiple shortest substrings exist, return the one that starts the earliest in S
.
Input:
The input contains a single string 'S'
consisting of only lowercase English letters.
Output:
Output the shortest substring of 'S'
that contains all unique characters from 'S'
.
Example:
Input:
"abcba"
Output:
"abc"
Explanation:
In the string S = "abcba"
, the substrings "abc"
and "cba"
both contain all characters of S
. "abc"
begins at index 0, earlier than "cba"
which begins at index 2. Hence, the answer is "abc"
.
Constraints:
1 <= N <= 10^5
S
consists only of lowercase English letters.
Where S
denotes the input string and N
is its length.
Note: You do not need to print anything; implement the function as per the requirements.
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