
Count Substrings with K Distinct Characters
Given a lowercase string 'STR' and an integer K, the task is to count all possible substrings that consist of exactly K distinct characters. These substrings are not required to be distinct.
Input:
'STR' = “abcad”, K = 2
Output:
4
Example:
For the given string 'STR' = “abcad” and K = 2, the substrings {ab, bc, ca, ad} each have 2 distinct characters. Therefore, the total count is 4.
Constraints:
1 <= T <= 5
1 <= |STR| <= 3 * 10^3
1 <= K <= 26
- Time Limit: 1 second

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Count substrings with exactly K distinct characters in a given lowercase string.
Iterate through all substrings of length K and count distinct characters.
Use a set to keep track of distinct characters ...read more

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