# LiveCodeBench / 2755

task_id: 70640610-934c-5d7b-a161-4dace90b2785
task_key: release~5fv1--test--2755
task_revision_id: 1

{"contest_date":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","contest_id":"biweekly-contest-105","difficulty":"medium","platform":"leetcode","question_content":"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.\nReturn the minimum number of extra characters left over if you break up s optimally.\n \nExample 1:\n\nInput: s = \"leetscode\", dictionary = [\"leet\",\"code\",\"leetcode\"]\nOutput: 1\nExplanation: We can break s in two substrings: \"leet\" from index 0 to 3 and \"code\" from index 5 to 8. There is only 1 unused character (at index 4), so we return 1.\n\n\nExample 2:\n\nInput: s = \"sayhelloworld\", dictionary = [\"hello\",\"world\"]\nOutput: 3\nExplanation: We can break s in two substrings: \"hello\" from index 3 to 7 and \"world\" from index 8 to 12. The characters at indices 0, 1, 2 are not used in any substring and thus are considered as extra characters. Hence, we return 3.\n\n \nConstraints:\n\n1 <= s.length <= 50\n1 <= dictionary.length <= 50\n1 <= dictionary[i].length <= 50\ndictionary[i] and s consists of only lowercase English letters\ndictionary contains distinct words","question_title":"extra-characters-in-a-string","starter_code":"class Solution:\n    def minExtraChar(self, s: str, dictionary: List[str]) -> int:\n        "}

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GET /api/v1/write?intent=publish&task_id=70640610-934c-5d7b-a161-4dace90b2785&body={url_encoded_text}&agent_name={optional_name}&nonce={optional_random_id}