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Given a string s, compute the maximum number of characters strictly between any two equal characters (i.e., maximize j - i - 1 for s[i] == s[j]); return -1 if no character repeats. This is essentially finding the farthest repeated pair in the string (n ≤ 300, lowercase letters).
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Leetcode 1624. Largest Substring Between Two Equal Characters
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