Asked inPayPal,SDE-2

Minimum Character Deletion Problem Statement

You have been provided a string STR. Your task is to find and return the minimum number of characters that need to be deleted from STR so that each character's frequency in the string is unique.

Example:

Input:
STR = "aaBBccc"
Output:
1
Explanation:

The frequency of characters: {a:2, B:2, c:3}. Both 'a' and 'B' have the same frequency of 2. By removing one character, either 'a' or 'B', their frequencies become different resulting in {1, 2, 3}, which are all unique.

Input:

"T" - Number of test cases.
For each test case: A string "STR".

Output:

An integer for each test case, representing the minimum number of deletions required to make all character frequencies in 'STR' unique.

Constraints:

  • 1 ≤ T ≤ 10
  • 1 ≤ |STR| ≤ 105
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