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Problem Statement:


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

Example 1:
Input: s = "abcabcbb"
Output: 3
Explanation: The answer is "abc", with the length of 3.

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.

Example 4:
Input: s = ""
Output: 0

Solution:


It is very important that get yourself comfortable with Sliding Window technique before solving this problem. I would highly recommend you going through the below problems first, if you haven't done so already:


I have discussed the algorithm in the inline comments in the code below.

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