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Longest Balanced Substring

Given a string containing only the characters 'a', 'b', and 'c', find the length of the longest substring that contains an equal number of 'a's, 'b's, and 'c's. If there is no such substring, return 0. Example Input: abcabcab Example Output: 6

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