2351. First Letter to Appear Twice
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Given a string s consisting of lowercase English letters, return the first letter to appear twice.
Note:
- A letter
aappears twice before another letterbif the second occurrence ofais before the second occurrence ofb. swill contain at least one letter that appears twice.
Example 1:
Input: s = "abccbaacz" Output: "c" Explanation: The letter 'a' appears on the indexes 0, 5 and 6. The letter 'b' appears on the indexes 1 and 4. The letter 'c' appears on the indexes 2, 3 and 7. The letter 'z' appears on the index 8. The letter 'c' is the first letter to appear twice, because out of all the letters the index of its second occurrence is the smallest.
Example 2:
Input: s = "abcdd" Output: "d" Explanation: The only letter that appears twice is 'd' so we return 'd'.
Constraints:
2 <= s.length <= 100sconsists of lowercase English letters.shas at least one repeated letter.
Hints
Hint 1
Iterate through the string from left to right. Keep track of the elements you have already seen in a set.
Hint 2
If the current element is already in the set, return that element.