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3. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Medium

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.

Example 4:

Input: s = “”

Output: 0

Constraints:

Solution

class Solution {
  int lengthOfLongestSubstring(String s) {
    List<int> lastIndices = List.filled(256, -1);
    int maxLen = 0;
    int curLen = 0;
    int start = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
      // Getting ASCII value of the character
      int cur = s.codeUnitAt(i);
      if (lastIndices[cur] < start) {
        lastIndices[cur] = i;
        curLen++;
      } else {
        int lastIndex = lastIndices[cur];
        start = lastIndex + 1;
        curLen = i - start + 1;
        lastIndices[cur] = i;
      }
      if (curLen > maxLen) {
        maxLen = curLen;
      }
    }
    return maxLen;
  }
}