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Longest Unique Messenger Substring
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Longest Unique Messenger Substring

MediumPython

Problem

In Meta Messenger, you are given a message string s. Return the length of the longest contiguous substring that contains no repeated characters.

This is a standard string and sliding-window problem: scan the string once and maintain the largest valid window with all unique characters.

Formal Specification

  • Input: a string s
  • Output: an integer representing the maximum length of a substring of s with all distinct characters

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(s) <= 5 * 10^4
  • s consists of English letters, digits, symbols, and spaces
  • A linear-time solution is expected

Function Signature

def length_of_longest_substring(s):
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