Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1413 [Medium]

Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today.

This problem was asked by Square.

Given a string and a set of characters, return the shortest substring containing all the characters in the set.

For example, given the string "figehaeci" and the set of characters {a, e, i}, you should return "aeci".

If there is no substring containing all the characters in the set, return null.

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