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Maximum Score From Removing Substrings

Medium

You are given a string s and two integers x and y. You can perform two types of operations any number of times. Remove substring "ab" and gain x points. For example, when removing "ab" from "cabxbae" it becomes "cxbae". Remove substring "ba" and gain y points. For example, when removing "ba" from "cabxbae" it becomes "cabxe". Return the maximum points you can gain after applying the above operations on s. Example 1: Input: s = "cdbcbbaaabab", x = 4, y = 5 Output: 19 Explanation: - Remove the "ba" underlined in "cdbcbbaaabab". Now, s = "cdbcbbaaab" and 5 points are added to the score. - Remove the "ab" underlined in "cdbcbbaaab". Now, s = "cdbcbbaa" and 4 points are added to the score. - Remove the "ba" underlined in "cdbcbbaa". Now, s = "cdbcba" and 5 points are added to the score. - Remove the "ba" underlined in "cdbcba". Now, s = "cdbc" and 5 points are added to the score. Total score = 5 + 4 + 5 + 5 = 19. Example 2: Input: s = "aabbaaxybbaabb", x = 5, y = 4 Output: 20 Constraints: 1 <= s.length <= 105 1 <= x, y <= 104 s consists of lowercase English letters.