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821. Shortest Distance to a Character

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Given a string s and a character c that occurs in s, return an array of integers answer where answer.length == s.length and answer[i] is the distance from index i to the closest occurrence of character c in s. The distance between two indices i and j is abs(i - j), where abs is the absolute value function. Example 1: Input: s = "loveleetcode", c = "e" Output: [3,2,1,0,1,0,0,1,2,2,1,0] Explana

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