Number of Valid Clock Times
You are given a string of length 5 called time, representing the current time on a digital clock in the format "hh:mm".
You are given a string of length 5 called time, representing the current time on a digital clock in the format "hh:mm". The earliest possible time is "00:00" and the latest possible time is "23:59".
In the string time, the digits represented by the ? symbol are unknown, and must be replaced with a digit from 0 to 9.
Return an integer answer, the number of valid clock times that can be created by replacing every ? with a digit from 0 to 9.
Example 1
Input: time = "?5:00"
Output: 2
Explanation: We can replace the ? with either a 0 or 1, producing "05:00" or "15:00". Note that we cannot replace it with a 2, since the time "25:00" is invalid. In total, we have two choices.
Example 2
Input: time = "0?:0?"
Output: 100
Explanation: Each ? can be replaced by any digit from 0 to 9, so we have 100 total choices.
Example 3
Input: time = "??:??"
Output: 1440
Explanation: There are 24 possible choices for the hours, and 60 possible choices for the minutes. In total, we have 24 * 60 = 1440 choices.
Constraints
- time is a valid string of length 5 in the format "hh:mm".
- "00" <= hh <= "23"
- "00" <= mm <= "59"
- Some of the digits might be replaced with '?' and need to be replaced with digits from 0 to 9.
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