
In short
Text-processing problems — often array problems in disguise, but with their own common patterns around characters, substrings and comparisons.
How to learn this
- 1Solve classic string problems: palindrome check, anagram check, longest substring.
- 2Learn common patterns: sliding window, character frequency maps.
- 3Practice both the brute-force and optimized solution for a few problems.
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