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2707. Extra Characters in a String

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You are given a 0-indexed string s and a dictionary of words dictionary. You have to break s into one or more non-overlapping substrings such that each substring is present in dictionary. There may be some extra characters in s which are not present in any of the substrings. Return the minimum number of extra characters left over if you break up s optimally. Example 1: Input: s = "leetscode",

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