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Shortest Substring with All Unique Characters

Given a string s, find the length of the shortest substring that contains all unique characters. If not all characters are unique, return -1. Example: Input: "abcabcbb" Output: 3 (Note: The shortest substring with all unique characters is "abc".)

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