Tip 1 : Start with the basics if you have lost touch with competitive coding. Don't directly jump to interview questions.
Tip 2 : Create a timetable and set goals. Keep aside 3-4 hours for studying. Consistency is the key.
Tip 3 : Focus on medium and hard questions. Solving a lot of easy questions doesn't help.
Tip 1 : Have some projects on your resume.
Tip 2 : Do not put the wrong things on your resume.



You have been given a text message. You have to return the Run-length Encoding of the given message.
Run-length encoding is a fast and simple method of encoding strings. The basic idea is to represent repeated successive characters as the character and a single count. For example, the string "aaaabbbccdaa" would be encoded as "a4b3c2d1a2".



Let S = “abdd” and X = “bd”.
The windows in S which contain all the characters in X are: 'abdd', 'abd', 'bdd', 'bd'.
Out of these, the smallest substring in S which contains all the characters present in X is 'bd'.
All the other substring have a length larger than 'bd'.
You are given two strings S and X containing random characters. Your task is to find the smallest substring in S which contains all the characters present in X.



1. The array follows 0-based indexing, so you need to return the 0-based index of the element.
2. Note that the element at the equilibrium index won’t be considered for either left sum or right sum.
3. If there are multiple indices which satisfy the given condition, then return the left-most index i.e if there are indices i,j,k…. which are equilibrium indices, return the minimum among them
4. If no such index is present in the array, return -1.
You are given an array Arr consisting of N integers. You need to find the equilibrium index of the array.
An index is considered as an equilibrium index if the sum of elements of the array to the left of that index is equal to the sum of elements to the right of it.

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