Find the shortest substring covering every required character, including duplicates, with case-sensitive matching and a linear-time minimum-window algorithm.
Company: Lyft
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Coding & Algorithms
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: Find the shortest substring covering every required character, including duplicates, with case-sensitive matching and a linear-time minimum-window algorithm.
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