Question: Given a string, reduce it in such a way that all of its substrings are distinct. To do so, you may delete any characters

Given a string, reduce it in such a way that all of 

Given a string, reduce it in such a way that all of its substrings are distinct. To do so, you may delete any characters at any index. What is the minimum number of deletions needed? Note: A substring is a contiguous group of 1 or more characters within a string. Example S= "abab" Substrings in s are { 'a', 'b', 'a', 'b', 'ab', 'ba', 'ab', 'aba', 'bab', 'abab'}. By deleting one "a" and one "b", the string becomes "ab" or "ba" and all of its substrings are distinct. This required 2 deletions. Function Description Complete the function getMinDeletions in the editor below. getMinDeletions has the following parameter(s): string s: the given string Returns: int: the minimum number of deletions required

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