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Minimize cost of removals required to make all remaining characters of the string unique | Function to find the minimum cost of removing characters to make the string unique.
Store the minimum cost required.
Create a dictionary to store the maximum cost of removal a character.
Create a dictionary to store the total deletion cost of a character.
Traverse the string , S.
Keep track of maximum cost of each character.
Update the maximum deletion cost.
Keep track of the total cost of each character.
Update the total deletion cost.
Traverse through all the unique characters.
Keep the maximum cost character and delete the rest.
Return the answer.
Given string.
Given cost array.
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Solution in Python:
 Can you provide a code to minimize cost of removals required to make all remaining characters of the string unique and the other steps required?
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#Here is code to minimize cost of removals required to make all remaining characters of the string unique and the other steps required.
 def delCost ( s , cost ) :
	ans = 0
	forMax = { }
	forTot = { }
	for i in range ( len ( s ) ) :
		if s [ i ] not in forMax :
			forMax [ s [ i ] ] = cost [ i ]
		else :
			forMax [ s [ i ] ] = max ( cost [ i ] , forMax [ s [ i ] ] )
		if s [ i ] not in forTot :
			forTot [ s [ i ] ] = cost [ i ]
		else :
			forTot [ s [ i ] ] += cost [ i ]
	for i in forMax :
		ans += forTot [ i ] - forMax [ i ]
	return ans
string = " AAABBB "
cost = [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]
print ( delCost ( string , cost ) )