Practice Problem

Length of Last Word

Difficulty: Easy

Given a string of words separated by spaces, return the length of the last word.

Length of Last Word

Given a string s consisting of words and spaces, return the length of the last word in the string.

A word is a maximal substring consisting of non-space characters only.

Examples

Example 1:

Input: s = "Hello World"
Output: 5
Explanation: The last word is "World" with length 5.

Example 2:

Input: s = "   fly me   to   the moon  "
Output: 4
Explanation: The last word is "moon" with length 4.

Example 3:

Input: s = "luffy is still joyboy"
Output: 6
Explanation: The last word is "joyboy" with length 6.

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 10^4
  • s consists of only English letters and spaces ' '.
  • There is at least one word in s.

Expected Complexity

  • Time: O(n)
  • Space: O(1)
EASY
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