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LeetCode 3, Medium. Topics: Hash Table, String, Sliding Window. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 13 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

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

Examples

Explanation: The answer is “abc”, with the length of 3.
Explanation: The answer is “b”, with the length of 1.
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.

Constraints

  • 0 <= s.length <= 5 * 10^4
  • s consists of English letters, digits, symbols and spaces.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

Tags

Grind 75, Grind, Blind 75, NeetCode 150, NeetCode 250, NeetCode All, AlgoMaster 75.
Last modified on August 25, 2026