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58. Length of Last Word

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Description

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.

 

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 <= 104
  • s consists of only English letters and spaces ' '.
  • There will be at least one word in s.

Solution

length-of-last-word.py
class Solution:
    def lengthOfLastWord(self, s: str) -> int:
        s = s.strip().split()

        return len(s[-1])