Skip to main content

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Problem Statement

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters LeetCode link

Given a string s, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abcabcbb"
Output: 3
Explanation: The answer is "abc", with the length of 3.

Example 2:

Input: s = "bbbbb"
Output: 1
Explanation: The answer is "b", with the length of 1.

Example 3:

Input: s = "pwwkew"
Output: 3
Explanation: The answer is "wke", with the length of 3.
Notice that the answer must be a substring, "pwke" is a subsequence and not a substring.

Constraints:

  • 0 <= s.length <= 5 * 104
  • s consists of English letters, digits, symbols and spaces.

Code

Python Code
class Solution:
# @return an integer
def lengthOfLongestSubstring(self, s):
start = maxLength = 0
usedChar = {}

for i in range(len(s)):
if s[i] in usedChar and start <= usedChar[s[i]]:
start = usedChar[s[i]] + 1
else:
maxLength = max(maxLength, i - start + 1)

usedChar[s[i]] = i

return maxLength


C++
class Solution {
public:
int lengthOfLongestSubstring(string s) {
vector<int> dict(256, -1);
int maxLen = 0, start = -1;
for (int i = 0; i != s.length(); i++) {
if (dict[s[i]] > start)
start = dict[s[i]];
dict[s[i]] = i;
maxLen = max(maxLen, i - start);
}
return maxLen;
}
};