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First Unique Character (Data & Analytics)
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A unique character is one that appears only once in a string. Given a string consisting of lowercase English letters only, return the index of the first occurrence of a unique character in the string using 1-based indexing. If the string does not contain any unique character, return -1.

Function Description

Complete the function getUniqueCharacter in the editor below.

getUniqueCharacter has the following parameter(s):

  • string s: a string

Returns

int: either the 1-based index or -1

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Example 1: 

Input:  s = "statistics"
Output: 3 
Explanation:

The unique characters are [a, c] among which a occurs first. Using 1-based indexing, it is at index 3.

Example 2: 

Input:  s = "hackthegame"
Output: 3 
Explanation:

The unique characters are [c, k, t, g, m] out of which the character c occurs first, at index 3 :)
Constraints:
    • 1 ≤ length of s ≤ 10^5
    • The string s consists of lowercase English letters only.
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