LeetCode OJ-387. First Unique Character in a String

Given a string, find the first non-repeating character in it and return it's index. If it doesn't exist, return -1.

Examples:

s = "leetcode"
return 0.

s = "loveleetcode",
return 2.

Note: You may assume the string contain only lowercase letters.

int firstUniqChar(char* s) {
    int res = -1;
    int rec[26] = { 0 };
    int len = (int) strlen(s);
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
        ++rec[(int) (s[i] - 'a')];
    }
    
    for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
        if (rec[(int) (s[i] - 'a')] == 1) {
            res = i;
            break;
        }
    }
    
    return res;
}