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First Unique Character in a String

Given a string s, find the first non-repeating character in it and return its index.

Given a string s, find the first non-repeating character in it and return its index. If it does not exist, return -1.

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Example 1

Input: s = "leetcode"

Output: 0

Explanation: The character 'l' at index 0 is the first character that does not occur at any other index.

Example 2

Input: s = "loveleetcode"

Output: 2

Example 3

Input: s = "aabb"

Output: -1

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 10^5
  • s consists of only lowercase English letters.

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