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String and Array Coding

EasyPython

Problem

Write a function to reverse a string or find duplicate characters in an array.

Choose the duplicate-character version. Implement find_duplicates(chars), which accepts an array of single-character strings and returns each character appearing more than once, listed once in first-seen order.

Input is list[str]; output is list[str].

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(chars) <= 10^4
  • Each element of chars is a single-character string
  • Return duplicate characters in first-seen order
  • Each duplicate character must appear once in the output

Function Signature

def find_duplicates(chars):
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