Two Friends and Pastry
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Dhruv and Sridharan are good friends. They both enjoy eating pastries. There are $N$ shops in the town of Haven which sell pastries. Each shop sells only one type of pastry. There can be at most 26 different varieties of pastries denoted by the lowercase English alphabets $(a,b...z).$ The shops are given as a **string** $S$, where $S_i$ denotes the type of pastry being sold by the $i$-th shop. S
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