#3303
Find the Occurrence of First Almost Equal Substring
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Description
You are given two strings s and pattern.
A string x is called almost equal to y if you can change at most one character in x to make it identical to y.
Return the smallest starting index of a substring in s that is almost equal to pattern. If no such index exists, return -1.
A substring is a contiguous non-empty sequence of characters within a string.
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