First Unrepeated Character In A String
April 30, 2013
We have today another exercise from our never-ending supply of interview questions:
Given a string, find the first character that appears only once in the string. For instance, given the string “aabbcddd”, the first character that appears only once is the “c” found at the 4th character in the string, counting from 0. Be sure that your program properly handles the case that all characters appear more than once.
Your task is to write a program that finds the first unrepeated character in a string, and its index in the string. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 