LeetCode 434, Easy. Topics: String. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 20 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given a string s, return the number of segments in the string.
A segment is defined to be a contiguous sequence of non-space characters.
Examples
Constraints
- 0 <= s.length <= 300
- s consists of lowercase and uppercase English letters, digits, or one of the following characters ”!@#$%^&*()_+-=’,.:”.
- The only space character in s is ’ ’.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
Last modified on September 7, 2026