Longest Substring with K Repeating Characters
Return the length of the longest substring of a given string in which every character appears at least K times.
Find all indexes of a substring
Write a function that returns a list of all starting indexes where a substring appears in a string, including overlapping occurrences.
Find substring index
Implement a function that returns the starting index of the first occurrence of a substring using only basic string indexing and slicing.
Count Substrings
Implement a function that counts non-overlapping occurrences of a substring in a given string.
Find all anagrams
Return all starting indices where any anagram of a given word appears as a substring.
Substring Anagrams
Return all start indices in a string where a substring of length k is an anagram of a pattern string.
Longest Palindrome Substring
Given a string s, return the longest substring that reads the same forwards and backwards.
Index of First Occurrence
Implement a function that finds the starting index of a substring within a string, returning -1 when absent.
Extract Quoted Strings
Write a function that extracts the text inside every double-quoted substring from a given string.
Non-greedy quantifier
Implement a function that uses a non-greedy regex to extract the shortest substring between two delimiters.
Palindrome Partitioning Minimum Cuts
Given a string, return the minimum number of cuts needed such that every substring in the partition is a palindrome.
Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
Implement a function that returns the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.
Minimum Window Substring
Implement a sliding window algorithm to find the minimum window substring containing all characters of a given pattern.
Character Replacement Window
Given a string and a number k, find the length of the longest substring that can be made uniform by replacing at most k characters.
Permutation in String
Determine if any permutation of a shorter string appears as a contiguous substring in a longer string using an efficient sliding window.
Longest Substring with At Most K Distinct Characters
Given a string and an integer k, find the length of the longest substring that contains at most k distinct characters.
Minimum Window Subsequence
Given strings s and t, return the minimum window substring of s that contains t as a subsequence, or empty string if none exists.
Longest Repeating Character Replacement
Given a string and an integer k, return the length of the longest substring that can be made of identical characters after at most k replacements.
Decode String Stack
Decode a compressed string with repeated substrings like '3[a2[c]]' to 'accaccacc' using a stack-based approach.
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