Longest Substring with At Most K Distinct Characters
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Given a string s and an integer k, return the length of the longest substring of s that contains at most k distinct characters.
Example 1
Input: s = "eceba", k = 2 Output: 3 Explanation: The substring "ece" has 2 distinct characters and length 3.
Example 2
Input: s = "aa", k = 1 Output: 2 Explanation: The whole string has only 1 distinct character.
Example 3
Input: s = "abc", k = 0 Output: 0 Explanation: No substring can have zero distinct characters except the empty one.
Constraints
- 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 10^4
- 0 <= k <= 50
- s consists of lowercase English letters
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