3 Longest Substring
Problem Statement
Given a string s, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.
Input: s = "abcabcbb"
Output: 3
Approach
Sliding Window approach with a Set and two Pointers. We loop through the string via the right pointer and add the character at right to the Set and then get the length. Once there is a duplicate our while loop kicks in and removes characters from the left and shifts the left pointer. Once the set is clear we start looking for a longest substring again.
Solution
var lengthOfLongestSubstring = function(s) {
let set = new Set();
let length = 0;
let left = 0;
for (let right = 0; right < s.length; right++) {
while (set.has(s[right])) {
set.delete(s[left]);
left++;
}
set.add(s[right]);
length = Math.max(length, right - left + 1);
}
return length
};