GOOGLE_Interview_Question_(EASY)[5].ipynb

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        "INTRODUCTION:\n",
        "\n",
        "If I give you a name of a city as a string, I want you to return a string that shows how many times each letter shows up in the string by using an asterisk *\n",
        "\n",
        "SEE TEST CASE!\n",
        "\n",
        "As you can see for Chicago, in the return string, I only show the letter \"c\" once even though there are 2 \"c\" in Chicago (regardless of upper or lowercase).\n",
        "\n",
        "I show 2 asteriks since there are 2 \"c\" in Chicago.\n",
        "\n",
        "In the return string there are no spaces between the letters, asteriks, and commas.\n",
        "\n",
        "\"Chicago\"  =>  \"c:**,h:*,i:*,a:*,g:*,o:*\"\n",
        "\n",
        "Note that the return string contains the characters in order of first appearence in the original string."
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        "def get_strings(city):\n",
        "  star = ''\n",
        "  city = city.lower().replace(' ','')\n",
        "  while(len(city)!= 0):\n",
        "    star += city[0] + ':'\n",
        "    count = city.count(city[0])\n",
        "    city = city.replace(city[0],'')\n",
        "    for i in range(count):\n",
        "      star += '*'\n",
        "    star += ',' if(len(city) != 0) else '' \n",
        "  return star"
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        "print(get_strings(\"Las Vegas\"))"
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            "l:*,a:**,s:**,v:*,e:*,g:*\n"
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