Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Medium


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

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "abcabcbb"
Output: 3
Explanation: The answer is "abc", with the length of 3. Note that "bca" and "cab" are also correct answers.

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.

Java

class Solution {
    public int lengthOfLongestSubstring(String s) {
             
        int maxLen = 0, n = s.length();

        if( n == 0|| n == 1) return n;

        for(int i = 0; i < n-1;i++){
            int len = 1 ;
            Set<Character> set = new HashSet<>();
            set.add(s.charAt(i));
            for(int j = i+1; j < n; j++){
                if(set.contains(s.charAt(j))){
                    set = new HashSet<>();
                    break;
                }
                set.add(s.charAt(j));
                len++;
            }
            
            
            maxLen = Math.max(maxLen, len);
        }
        
        return maxLen;
    }
}

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