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Longest Substring Without Repeats
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Longest Substring Without Repeats

MediumPython

Problem

Given a string s, return the length of the longest substring that contains no repeated characters.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters. If the string is empty, return 0.

Write a function that takes a single string input and returns an integer length.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(s) <= 5 * 10^4
  • s may contain lowercase letters, uppercase letters, digits, spaces, and punctuation
  • Return the length of the longest substring without repeating characters

Function Signature

def length_of_longest_substring(s):
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