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Longest Unique Character Substring

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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 within the string. The input is a string, and the output is a single integer.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(s) <= 5 * 10^4
  • s consists of English letters, digits, symbols, and spaces
  • A valid solution should run in linear time

Function Signature

def length_of_longest_substring(s):
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