Longest Repeating Character Replacement

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What is Longest Repeating Character Replacement?

Given a string and a number k, find the length of the longest substring where you can replace at most k characters to make all characters the same. You track the count of the most frequent character in the window, and if the window size minus that count exceeds k, you shrink from the left. This problem teaches you a clever invariant: you never need to shrink the window below its maximum size seen so far.

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Can I learn Longest Repeating Character Replacement in Hindi?

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Is this Longest Repeating Character Replacement tutorial for beginners?

It is lesson 44 of 137 in the free LeetCode roadmap, in stage 8, Sliding Window. If you are new to LeetCode, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.

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