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Jewels and Stones (easy)
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Given two strings. The first string represents types of jewels, where each character is a unique type of jewel. The second string represents stones you have, where each character represents a type of stone. Determine how many of the stones you have are also jewels.

Examples:

  1. Example 1:

    • Input: Jewels = "abc", Stones = "aabbcc"
    • Expected Output: 6
    • Justification: All the stones are jewels.

  2. Example 2:

    • Input: Jewels = "aA", Stones = "aAaZz"
    • Expected Output: 3
    • Justification: There are 2 'a' and 1 'A' stones that are jewels.

  3. Example 3:

    • Input: Jewels = "zZ", Stones = "zZzZzZ"
    • Expected Output: 6
    • Justification: All the stones are jewels.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= jewels.length, stones.length <= 50
  • jewels and stones consist of only English letters.
  • All the characters of jewels are unique.

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