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1624. Largest Substring Between Two Equal Characters

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Given a string s, return the length of the longest substring between two equal characters, excluding the two characters. If there is no such substring return -1. A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. Example 1: Input: s = "aa" Output: 0 Explanation: The optimal substring here is an empty substring between the two 'a's. Example 2: Input: s = "abca" Output: 2 Exp

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