Longest Repeating Character Replacement
Problem Statement
Solve Longest Repeating Character Replacement efficiently with a clear algorithmic approach.
Examples
Input: ["ABAB",2]
Output: 4
Input: ["AABABBA",1]
Output: 4
Hints
If you could turn a substring into any single repeated character, which character would be the cheapest to aim for? The best candidate is the one that already appears most frequently in it.
For a substring of length $L$ where the most frequent character appears $f$ times, the number of changes needed to make it uniform is $L - f$. When is this feasible within the limit $k$?
The answer is a single integer — a length. Could you determine whether a feasible substring of some length $L$ exists without examining every possible substring of that length?
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Longest Repeating Character Replacement
Solve Longest Repeating Character Replacement efficiently with a clear algorithmic approach.