You are given a string s
consisting of lowercase English letters.
Your task is to find the maximum difference diff = freq(a1) - freq(a2)
between the frequency of characters a1
and a2
in the string such that:
a1
has an odd frequency in the string.a2
has an even frequency in the string.Return this maximum difference.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aaaaabbc"
Output: 3
Explanation:
'a'
has an odd frequency of 5
, and 'b'
has an even frequency of 2
.5 - 2 = 3
.Example 2:
Input: s = "abcabcab"
Output: 1
Explanation:
'a'
has an odd frequency of 3
, and 'c'
has an even frequency of 2.3 - 2 = 1
.
Constraints:
3 <= s.length <= 100
s
consists only of lowercase English letters.s
contains at least one character with an odd frequency and one with an even frequency.