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Longest Substring Without Repeats

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Problem

How would you find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters?

Implement length_of_longest_substring(s), which accepts a string and returns the maximum length of a contiguous substring containing no repeated characters. Use an efficient approach suitable for strings up to 50,000 characters.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(s) <= 50000
  • s may contain lowercase letters, uppercase letters, digits, spaces, and punctuation
  • Return an integer representing the maximum substring length

Function Signature

def length_of_longest_substring(s):
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