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2103. Rings and Rods (Easy)

There are n rings and each ring is either red, green, or blue. The rings are distributed across ten rods labeled from 0 to 9.

You are given a string rings of length 2n that describes the n rings that are placed onto the rods. Every two characters in rings forms a color-position pair that is used to describe each ring where:

• The first character of the ith pair denotes the ith ring's color ('R', 'G', 'B').
• The second character of the ith pair denotes the rod that the ith ring is placed on ('0' to '9').

For example, "R3G2B1" describes n == 3 rings: a red ring placed onto the rod labeled 3, a green ring placed onto the rod labeled 2, and a blue ring placed onto the rod labeled 1.

Return the number of rods that have all three colors of rings on them.

 

Example 1:

Input: rings = "B0B6G0R6R0R6G9"
Output: 1
Explanation: 
- The rod labeled 0 holds 3 rings with all colors: red, green, and blue.
- The rod labeled 6 holds 3 rings, but it only has red and blue.
- The rod labeled 9 holds only a green ring.
Thus, the number of rods with all three colors is 1.

Example 2:

Input: rings = "B0R0G0R9R0B0G0"
Output: 1
Explanation: 
- The rod labeled 0 holds 6 rings with all colors: red, green, and blue.
- The rod labeled 9 holds only a red ring.
Thus, the number of rods with all three colors is 1.

Example 3:

Input: rings = "G4"
Output: 0
Explanation: 
Only one ring is given. Thus, no rods have all three colors.

 

Constraints:

• rings.length == 2 * n
• 1 <= n <= 100
• rings[i] where i is even is either 'R', 'G', or 'B' (0-indexed).
• rings[i] where i is odd is a digit from '0' to '9' (0-indexed).

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Hints

Hint 1

For every rod, look through ‘rings’ to see if the rod contains all colors.

Hint 2

Create 3 booleans, 1 for each color, to store if that color is present for the current rod. If all 3 are true after looking through the string, then the rod contains all the colors.