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CodingMediumcod-g1374
Subject StringsLevel Entry–Mid~15 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Count the hashtags in a social post. A hashtag is a '#' followed by one or more letters or digits; it ends just before the first character that is neither. Tags compare case-insensitively. Return a dictionary mapping each lowercase tag (without the '#') to how many times it appears. A bare '#' with nothing valid after it is not a hashtag. For example, '#DevLife rocks #devlife' yields {'devlife': 2}.

Implement
count_hashtags(post: str) → dict[str,int]
Examples
in["Loving the new build #DevLife #devlife and #Rust!"]out{"rust":1,"devlife":2}
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