Given a string s, return the first non-repeating character in it. If every character repeats, return null.

Examples:

Input: s = "aabbcddex" Output: "c" Input: s = "aabbcc" Output: null Input: s = "abcab" Output: "c" Input: s = "z" Output: "z"
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