#K14926. Unique String Transformation
Unique String Transformation
Unique String Transformation
You are given a string S consisting of lowercase letters. Your task is to calculate the minimum cost required to transform S into a string that contains only distinct characters. The only allowed operation is the removal of characters, and the cost is simply the number of characters removed.
More formally, let S be a string of length n. We want to obtain a string T such that every character in T is unique. The cost is defined as:
$\text{cost} = n - |\{\text{unique characters in } S\}|$
You need to process multiple test cases. For each test case, compute and print the result on a new line.
Example:
Input: 3 aabb abc zzz</p>Output: 2 0 2
inputFormat
The first line of input contains a single integer T (the number of test cases). Each of the following T lines contains a single string S composed of lowercase letters.
outputFormat
For each test case, print the minimum cost required to transform the string into one with all distinct characters. Each result should be printed on a new line.
## sample3
aabb
abc
zzz
2
0
2
</p>